Fantastic Find Friday - Marcantonio Casillo Birth Record

Not only is this a Fantastic Find Friday, it is also my 200th post:-)  My first foray into foreign language records was to try and find my gg grandfathers Italian birth record.  In addition to getting incredibly lucky that the woman volunteering at the FHC was an expert in Italian records, the record was also exactly where it should be!  That doesn't happen too often, especially when dealing with birth records.  I was also excited when, written in the margins, was a note telling his marriage date and the town it occurred in.  I am told this happens rather often in Italian records, but I had never heard of it before.  I wish other cultures did that as well;-)

(Sorry for the blurry photos)

Roccaromana, Caserta, Italy, "Anno 1868 Comune di Roccaromana Provincia di Terra di Larone Registro dell e Nascita Ufficio," (Archivio di Stato, Caserta, e nel Tribunale di Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Caserta), 1868 Nascita, Marcantonio Maria Casillo; FHL microfilm 1,801,953, item 2.

Wordless Wednesday: Summer is Coming!

A view of the North Sea (the dark blue in the middle of the picture) at the beach in St. Peter-Ording, Germany.  It was a beautiful day at the beach, it is finally getting in the 60's here - hopefully summer will come soon! For an even better view, check out their live webcam:-)

Tombstone(less) Tuesday - Adam Fleeman

Adam Fleeman, Abt. 1820 - 25 Nov 1889

He is to the left of the tombstones in the foreground, as he has no tombstone.

Fantastic Find Friday - Casillo Passenger List

My great-great aunt Lu wrote to my Grandpa Casell back when he started doing genealogy research and included that when she got her passport, the passport office found the passenger list of her father's (Marcantonio Casillo) first trip to the US with his father Pietro when Marcantonio was 17.  Over the years I have tried to find this passenger list and never managed to, wondering if it was an incorrect family legend.  Then I searched for Pietro on Ancestry.com and there it was!  It was so exciting to prove this piece of family history.

"New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," online images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 Apr 2010), manifest, Elysia, 11 May 1887, M. Casillo, Year: 1887; Arrival: New York, United States; Microfilm serial: M237; Microfilm roll: M237_506; Line: 16; List number: 540.

Buffalo Library Local History Subject Guide

The Buffalo and Erie County Public Library Database News Blog announced today the newest subject guide, that of Local History.  It offers databases, community and local links, and library materials.  They also have a genealogy guide that can be used in conjunction with this.

Wordless Wednesday: Amsterdam

Surname Saturday: Passel/Possehl/Persales

Each Saturday this year I am posting one of my surnames, going in alphabetical order.  This weeks surname is Passel, which I have also seen as Possehl and Persales.  The names in red are my direct line ancestors.



1-John Passel b. Abt 1803, , , , Germany
 +Dorothea b. Abt 1813, , , , Germany
|--2-Friedricke Passel b. Abt 1840, , , , Germany
|--2-John Passel b. Abt 1843, , , , Germany
|--2-Sophia Passel b. Jan 1846, , , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, d. 27 May
|    1928, Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA
|   +Joseph Gress b. Cal 9 Aug 1841, , , , Germany, d. 18 Feb 1899, Buffalo,
|    Erie, New York, USA
|  |--3-Louisa Gress b. Feb 1867, Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA
|  |--3-Jacob J. Gress b. 26 Jan 1869, Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA, d. 11 Aug
|  |    1932, Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA
|  |--3-Carolyn M. Gress b. Abt 1871
|  |--3-John Gress b. Abt 1873
|  |--3-Eli Gress b. Abt 1875
|--2-Carl Passel b. Abt 1852, , , , Germany
|--2-Line Passel b. Abt 1856, , , , Germany