I am seeking information on Fracesco (Frank) A. Loguercio, a shoemaker in Lynn Mass. I am looking for immigration records on his wife, Anna and son "James" Giovanni.
Valarie's previous 1885 manifest
11 Feb 1885 Ship Alesia, Marseilles and Naples to NY
Lines 36-38
Angela Fenizio, 27
Rosa Loguercio, 7?
Michel. Loguercio, 5?
Here's a link to the Italian White Pages (Pagine Bianche) http://www.paginebianche.it/index.html
Enter the surname in the Cognome field
Enter the town name in the Dove field
Then hit the Cerca button.
There should be five hits with names and addresses.
Bif
"Mintammicce impizzu mpizzu ca pue largu minne fazzu sule!"
One in the same in Lynn Massachussetts. We have several documents from the city of Lynn where his father (Frank) went back and forth to Italy working in the shoe factory before bringing hims wife and son (James) to the US.
Through a distant family relative who is also working on the line his daughter who a translator who lives in Europe located James' birth certificate in Sanza Italy and sent me the copy along with a translation his mothers name was "Venezia Angiola farmers wife of Francesco Loguercio. From what I understand my grandfather was the 1st child born to Anna & Frank, the rest of his siblings were born in the US. I will have to check the information Biff provided. That would be great though if it was one and the same.
This is definately my family. Thank you for the information. I am new to this part of the search so forgive my ignorance. How do I find information from Sanza Italy regarding the family?
It appears that the Family History Library has microfilms of
Sanza’s civil records that you can order and view at
your local Family History Center (they’ll be in Italian)
FamilySearch homepage, to locate a center near you
I am thrilled just to see the name LOGUERCIO..
my family came from GRASSANO in the province of Matera, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata..
I have not been lucky fo many yrs in finding anyone who knew of the name or the spelling..
Do you have some info on the name? or do you know if you have other sources for the name?
I have even gone to "YouTube.com" and gotten some contact in the town of GRASSANO and asked for them to search the name for me..an unusual source but well worth a try!
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