Thank you for your reply. As I can find no further record of the first Giovanni (my Uncle John was the second Giovanni born in the Bronx circa 1917), I can only rightly presume that the first Giovanni had died soon after his birth.

It saddens me that my grandparents had endured the death of three ...

I’m probably asking for too much now, but is there a death act for Giovanni Carpentieri born in December of 1911?

I’m assuming that my grandparents’ first child died in infancy and that might have been the trigger for Maddalena to return to New York with Pasquale.

It’s terribly sad that my family ...

Make that her great grandmother. Jeez, it sometimes gets confusing.

My daughter is traveling to Reggio Emilia in the Fall. She’s a teacher, Montessori trained, here in NYC.

Her private Montessori school is paying for her trip. It’s sort of a work study thing.

She will be just a fifteen minute train ride from her great great grandmother’s home in Parma. She will ...

Hello. Although, even with a diligent search including a search by an NYC archivist, I can not locate my paternal grandmother’s birth certificate.

Her name was Maria Musa, married name was Gardella.

She was born on February 7, 1888, in East New York, Brooklyn.

Every official document, her ...

I never knew my Carpentieri grandparents, Pasquale and Maddalena,
as they had both died before I was born.
I have a few photographs and the stories that my mother had told to me.

It’s interesting that I do look a lot like Maddalena.

My mother’s first cousin, Jennie Carpentieri, used to put her ...

You are amazing. Thank you so much.

I don’t have a family connection but I grew up in NJ with a family of that name. I believe that they lived in Staten Island before moving to New Jersey.

I knew a Tony of that family. Do you have any roots in New Jersey?

Through some deducing, I’ve realized that my grandparents were not married in NYC, as the family had thought, rather, they had to have been married in Italy.

I’m looking for their marriage act.

All I have to go on is the birth act for their first child who died in infancy.

Here is the birth act ...

I found a repository for these records. John Jay College here in Manhattan has taken them to add to their collection regarding Blackwell’s Island where these poor souks had ended up.

If anyone in this group had relatives who were interned at Blackwell’s Island, check with John Jay College.

I might have posted this before, if I had, please forgive me for posting again.

Brooklyn Newsstand is a database of the Brooklyn Public Library.

It’s free. One does not need a Brooklyn Public Library card to access this database.

Just google, Brooklyn Newsstand, and go from there.
There you will ...

Okay, I’m starting with the easiest. This commitment decree concerns
Mary A Linden.

There is no date of birth or residence of note for Mary Ann Linden. But she did live in New York City at that time. Remember, in 1872,NYC was solely Manhattan and some areas of the Bronx.

She was committed to ...

Thank you all for your responses and assistance.

DNA won’t help as I was not related to Joe and my cousin who suspected that he was her real grandfather died over a decade ago.

My father’s baby sister, Annie, had NF. It did not materialize until she was in her late thirties. The only other person ...

Nancy is a nickname for those named Ann. True story.

My husband came upon documents tossed onto a street in Lower Manhattan. They’re patients’ records from the notorious Blackwell’s Island from the mid to late 19th century.

I’ve been attempting to track down descendants through Ancestry to no avail.

I’m re-reading the documents now as some of the ...