Will do! Thanks, Joyce!

Leslee

Hi Joyce,

Thanks for the very good advice. I will most definitely hang onto it!

Having never contacted any archive in Italy, I was afraid the information I had wasn't good enough... However, I think maybe it's time to take your earlier advice and give that a whirl!

Thanks for your help,
Leslee

Hi Joyce,

I had checked Paginebianche.it and didn't find any LaFala listings. I was hoping that maybe that last "a" was really a "ce" written closely together, but the handwriting is so even and regular on the page that I knew it was a stretch! (Not to mention the fact that the age was off by about ...

Thanks to the great help you all have given me, I am making good progress in my family search. However, I still have not found an immigration record for Antonio LaFalce. There are several who turn up in the Ancestry.com files, but none seem to be my great-grandfather. The closest I've found is ...

Nor could I open the link.

I wonder if that first letter is an "S", and it says something about Sail or Sailor (which is his listed occupation). Almost looks like Sailor Boardinghouse, maybe...

jcsm and suanj,

Thank you for your posts. The information is very helpful to me!

Valarie, I had not yet found the records in the 1900 census, but this is my great-grandfather. Thanks so much!

eyetalgal, I don't know that I'm related to a Louie born in the 30s. I had an uncle by that name but born in 1921.

You know, as soon as I hit the "submit" button, I realized there was so much more I could have included! My apologies!

In addition to death certificates, I have census records from 1910-1930, which show my great-grandparents living on Sullivan Street in New York City.

Antonio LaFalce was born ...

My great-grandfather, Antonio LaFalce, emigrated from Italy (perhaps somewhere in Avellino) to the US around 1885. He was born around 1862, and according to his death certificate, his mother's name was Isabella Farassi. His father's name is difficult to make out and doesn't make sense to me, but it ...