My Heritage

1) What is your nationality? Besides American? I'm 100% Italian. All four of my grandparents came from Italy.

(2) Where you named after anyone in your family,a friend, or someone famous, other? I was named after everyone in my family. I'm the youngest. (sorry, I couldn't resist). No, I wasn't named after anyone.

(3) Do you have a middle name? I sure do. It's Anne.

(4) Did you ever visit where your family history(ancestors) were from? if not, would you ever want to? No, I've never visited but I would like to go sometime. My sister-in-law thought it would be fun if we all went for my brother's 50th birthday but I'm not sure if we will. My grandmother left us all a lot of land. I'd like to see what I inherited and whatever became of it.

(5) If you have any stories please share with us, hope they are all good ones..

On the day of my dad's baptism, his dad got into an argument with the priest and went storming out of the church so my dad never got baptized. When he was 9 years old, my dad decided, all on his own, that he wanted to be baptized (that still amazes me). He went to city hall to get his birth certificate only to find out there was no registration of his birth. He was born in a house and I guess they never got around to it. My dad had to collect three signatures from people who could vouch for his birth. That's how he got his birth certificate. Having been in school all that time shows how lax they were back then. Just a couple more fun facts: When my dad was 9 years old (big year for him), his family got electricity. Also, I have the 1930 census record of my dad's family. One of the questions on it? Do you have a radio? If memory serves me, they did.