I was searching for my family in Alia to authenticate my inherited citizenship. Just an update. I go it in late January and am now a registered citizen in Alia. The Italian passaporto is wonderful to have.

I hope to get to Alia this spring to enjoy my roots.

Kelly Martino

To denman922:

My family was from Alia and there was a cousin living in Houston when I was a child with the name Rumfola, but then it could have been a spelling error in the immigration records. I know many people who kept the names on the immigration records and passed the names to their children ...

To Calidon:

There is an abstract of one paper at this site:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_200304/ai_n9178664

To Lynnef:
In researching my family a key clue was found on the death record of my great grandfather. The priest wrote the place of birth as Ilio. I researched that name ...

An interesting fact:

In 1836 there was a devastating cholera epidemic in Sicily. About half the residents of Alia died. Those who lived are shown by genetic research-there is a genetic research center in Alia now--to not be of Sicilian or Italian stock. Those who died were Sicilian. Those who ...

I have located my family members from Alia. The surnames are Martino, Cimo, Lo Savio. The Martinos came over in the 1890s to New Orleans. Great grandparents Vincenzo Martino and Pasqua Cimo Martino, their children Calogero, Ciro, Carolina, Giovanna, and Beatrice came over in 1899. Ciro, my ...

Sazzlyn:
I knew a Damiano Rumfalo in Post Oak when I was a child. He was married to a Mary. We kids called all of them Uncles or Aunts. Damiano was quite old and had Parkinsons the whole time I knew him. This would have been in the late 1940's early 1950's. They were cousins of the Martinos I ...

Does anyone have Martino in their lists? Or does the name appear in the book so many refer to?

Sorry no Martino line in our family. We are related to Rumfolas.
But the book has 6 pages of Martino entries. Only one entry might fit your Vincenzo:

Vincenzo Matteo MARTINO (parents Filippo Martino ...

I am very new at this. This thread is such a great find because I find the names of the families that lived in Post Oak, now a very affluent suburb, but in my childhood a collection of small farms owned by Sicilians who were all related. My godparents who were a married couple were first cousins ...

Joann,

I am being repetitive because I am not sure how you reply directly to a post, so here hoping I am doing it right.

Who is the publisher of the book Italian American Roots. Alia, Sicily

Who is the publisher of Italian American Roots: Alia Sicily?

I am trying to find connections to the family of Vincenzo Martino who was born , I belive, in Alia in 1832. He migrated to Houston and I am named for his first son Calogero born in 1869. Kelly Martino (baptized Calogero Ciro) Ciro for his second son my grandfather. The sons came to the US in 1899 ...