Prosdocimo & Olivo

[Prosdo]

Hello everyone. I am trying to find information information regarding my great grandparents. My great grandfather was Giuseppe Prosdocimo from Calabria Italy and I am assuming my great grandmother Amelia Olivo was from the same area. My great grandmother also had two brothers Gregorio Olivo and Beniamino Olivo. Her mother's name was I believe Concetta Olivo. Does anyone know how I can find any information on them? Thanks so much.


Stephanie

[liviomoreno]

There's a site dedicated to the Prosdocimo Family

[pink67]

Hi!

if this is your great grandfather:

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
about Giuseppe Prosdocimo
Name: Giuseppe Prosdocimo
Arrival Date: 12 May 1902
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1878
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Napoli
Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: Italian
Ship Name: Liguria
Search Ship Database: Search the Liguria in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 13
Microfilm Serial: 15
Microfilm Roll: T715_274
Page Number: 41

His last residence was Fossato Serralta (Catanzaro Province - Calabria Region)....

http://www.comunedifossato.it/public/Home.asp

Image:
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here is his World War II Draft Registration card:

U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
about Joseph Prosdocimo
Name: Joseph Prosdocimo
Birth Date: 6 Mar 1878
Residence: Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Birth: Catanzari, Italy
Roll: WW2_2139538

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Laura

[pink67]

Giuseppe and his wife?

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
about Guiseppe Prosdocino
Name: Guiseppe Prosdocino
Arrival Date: 18 Apr 1914
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1878
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Le Havre
Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: Italian (South) (Italian)
Ship Name: Rochambeau
Search Ship Database: View the Rochambeau in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Nativity: Italy
Line: 11
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: T715_2299
Birth Location: Italy
Birth Location Other: fossate
Page Number: 26

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[img=http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/9752 ... vl8.th.jpg](1902)

On the first manifest about Giuseppe (1902) you can find a Naturalitazion
mark:

6 X 25989 (505) 3-27-40

on the second the same mark for Oliva/Amelia's Naturalization:

6 - 97934 3-21-40 505

Here is the World War I Registration Card:
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
about Guiseppe Prosdoliem
Name: Guiseppe Prosdoliem
City: Pittsburgh
County: Allegheny
State: Pennsylvania
Birth Date: 6 Mar 1878
Race: White
Roll: 1909239
DraftBoard: 11

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Laura

Edit to correct link to the Draft card

[pink67]

Could be Amalia's brother Beniamino arrival in 1914?

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
about Beniamino Olivo
Name: Beniamino Olivo
Arrival Date: 27 May 1914
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1880
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Naples, Italy
Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: Italian (South) (Italian)
Ship Name: Berlin
Search Ship Database: View the Berlin in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Nativity: Catanzaro
Line: 25
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: T715_2325
Birth Location: Catanzaro
Birth Location Other: maranere I think it could be Marianise, an hamlet of Fossato Serralta
Page Number: 33

Leaving in Fossato his mother CONCETTA LAMANNA, jioning his brother gregorio in Pittsburgh

Page 1:
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Page 2:
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[pink67]

Prosdo,
Here you have Beniamino's birth date:

World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
about Beniamino Peter Paul Oliva
Name: Beniamino Peter Paul Oliva
City: Pittsburgh
County: Allegheny
State: Pennsylvania
Birth Date: 26 Feb 1880
Race: White
Roll: 1909239
DraftBoard: 11

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... unfortunately it seems that the Family History centers don't have microfilms about the years you're interested...

Topic Italy, Catanzaro, Maranise - Civil registration

Titles Registri dello stato civile, 1809-1871 Fossato Serralta (Catanzaro). Ufficio dello stato civile
Registri dello stato civile, 1812-1865 Maranise (Catanzaro). Ufficio dello stato civile

??

[pink67]

Stephanie,

is it possible that Gregorio travelled his first time to USA with his father Gaetano?
Take a look at this manifest:


New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
about Gregerio Olivo
Name: Gregerio Olivo
Arrival Date: 1 Jul 1900
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1884
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Naples, Italy
Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: Italian
Ship Name: Bolivia
Search Ship Database: Search the Bolivia in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Line: 20
Microfilm Serial: 15
Microfilm Roll: T715_136
Page Number: 57

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this boy was travelling with his father Gaetano (approx. birth year 1854), from Fossato Serralta...

So if this record is correct you can see that
Amalia, Beniamino and Gregorio's parents were Concetta Lamanna and Gaetano Olivo (1854)

Laura

Edit to add details:

there is another arrival for Gregorio in 1905, he was single...
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and from http://www.ancestry.com/ here is his Draft Registration card for the WWII:
U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
about Gregerio Olivo
Name: Gregerio Olivo
Birth Date: 17 May 1884
Residence: Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Birth: Maranise Cotanzaro, Italy
Roll: WW2_2139312
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[vj]

Neat Platt map of Prosdocimo house(s) on Imperial Street
in 1923

Pittsburgh Library

[Prosdo]

Wow! Thank you all so much. This information is great.

Laura, I could not get this draft card to come up:

Here is the World War I Registration Card:
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
about Guiseppe Prosdoliem
Name: Guiseppe Prosdoliem
City: Pittsburgh
County: Allegheny
State: Pennsylvania
Birth Date: 6 Mar 1878
Race: White
Roll: 1909239
DraftBoard: 11

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Laura

Laura, yes that probably is my great grandfather traveling with my great grandmother. I believe he made two trips. One to prepare a home and the other to return with Amelia Olivo. Beniamino could have arrived in 1914. I will ask my grandfather. As far as Gaetano I suppose so. My grandfather never knew his grandfather's name. As far as the Prosdocimo side. Is there anyway I can find out who Giuseppe Prosdocimo's parents were? Again thank you all for the information. It is amazing.

[pink67]

Ciao Stephanie!

would you try to see the image? I did correct the link...
Laura

[Prosdo]

Thanks Laura. It worked now. Is there a way to find Giuseppe Prosdocimo's parents online or would I have to possibly write to Italy? I'm not sure how that works.

[ricbru]

You can write a letter only written in italian, to get your Giuseppe Prosdocimo real birth record (so you can read his parents names, ages, occupation, address where birth occurred) to:

Comune
Ufficio di Stato civile
Corso V. Emanuele III, 1
CAP 88050
Fossato Serralta (CZ)

I hope it helps
bye Riccardo

[Prosdo]

You can write a letter only written in italian, to get your Giuseppe Prosdocimo real birth record (so you can read his parents names, ages, occupation, address where birth occurred) to:

Comune
Ufficio di Stato civile
Corso V. Emanuele III, 1
CAP 88050
Fossato Serralta (CZ)

I hope it helps
bye Riccardo

How does that process work? And is there a place I can get a letter translated?

[pink67]

Stephanie, here you have death and birth date about Amelia:

Social Security Death Index
about Amelia Prosdocimo
Name: Amelia Prosdocimo
SSN: XXX0-XX-4964
Last Residence: 15217 Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Born: 19 Feb 1888
Died: Dec 1969
State (Year) SSN issued: Pennsylvania (1966 )

[Prosdo]

Thank you Laura. That will help me in requesting her information. I was not aware of her birth date.