unfortunately the www.poggioreale.net website has apparently been removed at this time.

photobug, I have some info for you. I am not sure if we have corresponded before.

Joseph Todaro who married Pauline Mangogna was one of the sons of Andrea Todaro and Anna Falsone, my ggg-grandparents.

Joseph (Guiseppe) Mangogna & Antoinette Messiha (Antonia Messina) are also my ggg-grandparents ...

I would love to know where my TODARO ancestors lived in the old Poggioreale and if there are any TODARO family currently living in the current Poggioreale.

My TODARO line, as I have attempted to piece it together so far, reaches back to
Giacomo Todaro b.1640-Poggioreale,Trapani,Sicilia,IT
wife ...

Seeking info and ancestry on Giuseppe Mangogna & Antonia Messina (marr.c1849-Poggioreale). I am fairly sure of the following children, but I do not know if there were other children:
Antonina b.1852
Paola b.1861
Andrea/Henry b.1874/1876/1877
Lena b.1886
The children were born in Italy, but Giuseppe ...

Seeking further info on Andrea TODARO m. Anna Falsone (mar. c1850-Poggioreale). They had at least 5 children, the first of whom was Vittorio b.1851, and the fifth child was Giuseppe/Joe b.1858. I am seeking the ancestry of this couple, their birth/death dates, and the names and birthdates of their ...

Thank you all. Yes, I agree that the name on the marriage record is Andrea Todaro. I have since discovered that it is not an uncommon male name and actually means "male".

I still cannot be sure that the 1880 ship's manifest mentioned is my Victor, but it is worth considering. Census records ...

My great-great-grandfather was Victorio/Victor Todaro, born about 1852-1855, supposedly from Genoa, Italy. He came to the U.S. around 1880 and married Antonina Magnoia (Josephine Antoinette Mangonis) in 1881 in New Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Victor's parents as noted on the marriage license ...

I found an 1880 passenger list from a ship that sailed from Palermo to New Orleans that shows someone with the surname Todaro listed as being from "Paggemali" or something similar to this. I suspect someone tried to write it the way the passenger pronounced it. Does anyone know of a location in ...