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[Biff83]

Hey, Valarie.

Great work on tracking Stephanie's grandmother Audrey and family. I hope Stephanie has plenty of blank Family Group Worksheets!

Still trying to locate Matteo's WWII Draft Reg Card.

A presto,
Biff

[MsValente1]

I must say you guys are amazing - how in the world did you find all this information and how did you know where to look? This is very exciting for me. Thank you again.

[vj]

Hey Stephanie !

The obituary was from GenealogyBank, a subscription site.
The clues in your grandmother's obituary led to the possible
records on ancestry.com, another subscription site.
Your local library may offer access to these and several other
subscription genealogy sites for free.

Some great free internet sites that may help you with your research:

FamilySearch
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp

FamilySearch Labs (free, takes abt 1 day to get registered)
http://labs.familysearch.org/

Google can be surprising
http://www.google.com/
+surname (no space after the +) +location

Rootsweb master search
http://searches.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sa

Vital Records:
http://www.deathindexes.com/

Naturalization:
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/naturalization.html

Cemeteries:
http://userdb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cemeteries/
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi
http://www.interment.net/

Best 'master site' for finding genealogy sites:
Cyndi's list
http://www.cyndislist.com/

Family Tree Magazine
Free charts & forms
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forms/download.html

Valarie

[ginamouton]

Hi Stephanie,

I think that we maybe related. My Grandmother was Elisabetta Valente, and she came over on the boat through Ellis Island with her mother Emma Valente and her sister. Her mother was married to Matteo Valente.

My Grandmother was the oldest of 7 children and had the best memory, she used to tell use stories about her uncle Ernie. She ended up living in New Berlin, WI for most of her life. Married to Albert Karl and had 3 children. Dianne, Donald (my father) and Richard.

So I'm pretty sure we are cousins.