Thank you mmogno for the information!

I’m trying to figure out the parents of an ancestor, and am having a little trouble.

My ancestor’s name is Angela Maria Esposito. Here is her death record from 1869 (the last entry on the page, images 293-294): https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-D4S4-F8?cc=1482813&wc=M61S-7M3%3A50425901 ...

rlw254, thank you so much for the research. I was able to find the immigration record for Filippa, her two sisters, and mother coming over as well.

I am trying to find records for my great-grandparents who emigrated from Sicily. From US obituaries and census records, my great-grandmother's name is listed as Teresa/Theresa Monteleone (her husband is Michael Virzi). However, there is a NY marriage index, of which I can actually view the document ...

How do I know when to link an Ancestry.com fact to the source (or citing a source in general), when certain bits of information within that source are inaccurate?

For example, let’s say I have the birth record of an ancestor born on January 1, 1899 in Manhattan, NY. A 1950 Census record lists this ...

Angela, I can’t possibly thank you enough for the help!

I feel silly because I actually did notice that cross near Maria Filosa’s name, and didn’t think anything of it, and also completely missed it near the bottom indicating the mother’s real name, even though I have looked over the record several ...

You can skip to the last two paragraphs for the important question I’m after if you don’t want to be bothered with this novel I’m writing (apologies, but there is a lot of info that is confusing so links and explanations are important).

After doing a great bit of searching trying to find my great ...