Finally!

I am so happy, I finally found the ship manifest of my husband's great-grandfather, Vincenzo Tallarico [transcribed as: Vincento Sallorico ] who came from Italy! So far, I had come across one ship manifest in which he was listed, but didn't make the voyage...today, I was feeling lucky and I found it!!!


Vincenzo's naturalization papers has him arriving on Feb 1912 [his certificate of arrival actually shows the wrong year!!], but he actually arrived in 1913! No wonder I had a hard time finding him!!! LOL

Thanks to Steve Morse's Ellis Island Gold Form I finally found the manifest that shows him arriving in New York!! Yipeeeeeeeeeee!!!




Liz

Congrats Liz!!!

Hey that's great, Liz! Drinks are on me!!!!!!!

YAY!!!!!!
*WHAP* (it IS Friday)

I can appreciatte your find. I too this week found my GGFs trip to the US and his brothers entry a few years later. Thier last name of Aiello, was so badly mis-spelled it was looked over for months. I finally matched dates and other segments to confirm thier travels. It takes persistance. Congrats on the find!

Congratulation Liz!!!

That great news!!

Vincenza

Congrats! Isnt that a great feeling!

Hi Liz
Congratulations I bet you're feeling just great. Its a lovely feeling when you find something you've been searchig for for a long time. I know how I felt when you found that death record for me XX



Love and Hugs
Emmy

ps I did post a message here yesterday but I must have forgotten to press 'submit' A Senior moment AGAIN!!

Thank you all! I'm still sporting a big grin from this great find, LOL

Has anyone had this happen?: I was super excited about finally finding the ship manifest, so I was telling Rick [my hubby] about it and how long I've been looking for this and he is like "Really?" as if it wasn't that big of a deal *insert eyeroll here*

Liz

I had a similar reaction from my son when I 'finally' found Naughty Nina and traced exactly who she was.... an enormous satisfaction for me after over 40 years of wondering about her fate.

And what did No1 Son say when I told him that the puzzle was finally solved?

"So - now you've found some distant family and they won't even acknowledge you - do you still think it was worth it"?

I must admit - that did rather pop my balloon!

Carole wrote:

I had a similar reaction from my son when I 'finally' found Naughty Nina and traced exactly who she was.... an enormous satisfaction for me after over 40 years of wondering about her fate. And what did No1 Son say when I told him that the puzzle was finally solved? "So - now you've found some distant family and they won't even acknowledge you - do you still think it was worth it"? I must admit - that did rather pop my balloon!

It was worth it though wasn't it?

I recall my first and most important breakthrough searching for my great-grandad - sitting in a reading library in north London and coming across a notice in an old copy of a newspaper from the other end of the world...was quite a feeling!

Congrats Chanchisfea! May there be many more.

For all the times my sons and my husband gave me the grimace and eye-roll my family since receiving their Christmas gifts are now being caught discussing the finds with others! The genealogy history that I printed out along with the stories and photos topped off with a family cookbook hooked four sons. They now want more details, more research!
BTW, I spent my one free day of the last ten on...and last free day before we leave next week...packing! YAY! But even funnier is 4 adult sons asking if I packed enough genealogy stuff to do the research...and they weren't being sarcastic! It was but you also need, take more this, show me where what is stored so I can email you if need be kind of comments! Val just laughed!

BonVal wrote:

For all the times my sons and my husband gave me the grimace and eye-roll my family since receiving their Christmas gifts are now being caught discussing the finds with others! The genealogy history that I printed out along with the stories and photos topped off with a family cookbook hooked four sons. They now want more details, more research! BTW, I spent my one free day of the last ten on...and last free day before we leave next week...packing! YAY! But even funnier is 4 adult sons asking if I packed enough genealogy stuff to do the research...and they weren't being sarcastic! It was but you also need, take more this, show me where what is stored so I can email you if need be kind of comments! Val just laughed!

I hope you have lots of fun on your trip! And (of course) great luck in your research!

Congratulation Liz,
I hope one day to find manifest of ship of my GGF Francesco Paolo Bruno, date 1902
bye Riccardo