There's a family tree on Ancestry.com which has Nicolo's wife as Catarina Vebnezia, his parents as Andrea Zarbo and Brigida Trinca, and his sister as Vincenza Zarbo, with no brothers.

Is that yours?

Where?

An accent doesn't occur AFTER a surname, but on its last letter (a vowel). Yet, I know it's just a matter of notation. Sometimes, you might find it written as (for example) Carra' ; but that is an apostrophe, the correct notation is Carrà You can sometimes find an apostrophe in surnames such as &qu...

Doesn't the birth record have both the date of birth and the date of recording?

In the mid-to-late 19th century in Sicily, how common would it be for parents to chose as the godfather for their baby a male age 17 not a member of the immediate family?

Anyone care to break the tie between Salvatore and Francesco?

Family Search transcribes the first name as "Ple".

I was thinking "goodfather Garofalo Francesco 5 Elm St." "goodfather" meaning "godfather". I also had considered "Sebastiano" and "Vincenzo", but I hadn't thought of "Salvatore". However, I can't find a candidate with any of those first nam...

What's written in this entry for "relative going to join"?

Glad to lend an opinion; I like looking at old photographs. Is there anything stamped or written on the back of your picture? There was a photographer working in Geneva, New York, named Abel Shepard Hinckley. He was active in the 1870s and 1880s, but this predates the estimate for your picture by 3...

Sounds right. What about after 1922?

Do the parents of Raffella/Josephine listed on her birth record match those on her death record?

Father was Geno, not Giuseppe. That was my typo.

In the 1930 Census it records their ages at first marriage, 25 for him and 16 for her. If she was born in 1894 (per family tree) that means marriage in 1910, and if he was born in 1885 (your records) that means marriage in 1910, presumably in the U.S. unless they traveled back to Italy or to somewhe...

Are these your relatives? They have her born in Nusco in 1894, immigrating in 1903 at age 8 with her mother Catherine DeLucia and brother Giuseppe joining papa Giuseppe Parla in Uniontown, PA. They say the ship manifest reads Raffella "Parla" for her last name but they have her father's na...