One further question: Does anyone know when the Palazzo di Nobile in Catanzaro was damaged during an earthquake? I can't seem to find it online...

EUREKA! That is it! I love you!

I do indeed have a subscription to ancestry.com, but I could never find the proper index search engine for ship names. How did you go about it?

As for the marriage index, the listing is rather strange. It says: "Catanzaro,Giuseppe,Paolo,Guiotta Domenica,Moto•,19 ...

Thank you very much for those links and I will investigate sometime in the near future. As for PeterTimber, I am fairly certain of the ship arriving in New York around that time...Giuseppe Catanzaro (1864-1929) and his sister Anna both list it numerous times on their passport application as the boat ...

This where it gets dicey. I know for certain that their children were born in Palermo. Where exactly they lived, I don't know for certain, but the logical assumption would be Palermo as of the early 1860's. I haven't heard of Tropea before, but that doesn't mean it isn't useful.

If I'm not mistaken ...

I did indeed notice that in my research. The information about the immigration date came from Joseph Catanzaro's passport application in 1905...he could have been wrong about the date, or given the nature of his character, there's a chance he was lying. What source did you use to determine this? Are ...

Thanks for the hints, but I've been there. I've already found all the New York stuff...what I need is evidence of their existence in Palermo prior to 1871.

I have recently been compiling a family tree for both of my parents' families and have run into a brick wall at perhaps the most important place. I am unable to find information about my great-great-grandfather. He was believed to have been a Count of Catanzaro, or at least a member of the nobility ...