Bosco Family Chart

Wow, I have a lot of work to do on this side of the family!

Bosco Family Chart

Antonino Militello /Grace Balogna Family Updates.

Hello Ladies Maryann and Laura,

This is just a summary of where we are in the research.

For our other cousins, this is Antonino Militello and Grace Balogna/Bologna family. You’ll find in documents his name was Tony, Anthony and Neno  Also I have seen Grace’s last name spelled 2 ways.

Okay in 1930 we know the Anthony and Grace lived at 2668 Charleviox Ave Detroit. He and Grace had the following children: Roselin age 16, Santo age 14, Leo age 12 Tony age 9, Salvator 5, Mary4,  Rosle age 2, Antonina. 3/2 (the census has that problems means 3 months?) Anthony is working at a fruit Peddler. 1930 Census Family Search.org

I found them in the 1940 census and they lived in the same spot and had the following children: Rosalie age 26, Leonard age 22, Tony age 19, Salvatore age 16, Mary age 14, Rosie age 12, Antoinette age 10, Josephine age 8, Jimmy age 5 and Joseph age 2. They still lived in the same house. It states Anthoy has his own fruit truck and  his son Leonard works at a tool crib in an auto factory. They still live the same location. 1940 Census Family Search.org

*Note: No need to print all this, make a user name and password on the site then add everything to your ‘Source Box’ that way it’s always there. Don’t make a family tree on there, use Legacy Software.

So, they had 10 children that lived. Now, onto the ones that didn’t make it

This is a death Certificate for Tony Militello born Feb 10, 1920 in St. Louis but died in Detroit. He only lived a month.

Here is another child they lost: Salvatore Militello, he died Sept 28^th 1922 in Detroit.

So far those are the only ones I have found. I sourced those from: Seeking Michigan

Also I did some digging on the Balogna/Bologna Family

I found Leonard and Lena in the 1930 St. Louis Census, He is widowed and his daughter Lena is living with him 1930 Census FamilySearch.org

On the same page I find the family in the 1920 Census 1920 Census Family Search.org

No Grace on the 1920 Census so she must have been married by then. I also can’t find the Balogna/Bologna Family in the 1910 Census. I’ll have to keep digging.

Okay, I have been asked for this several times so here it is: 5 Generation Chart for the Militello Family.

I have a few notes about this: Rosalia Trentacoste  I have no confirmed Birth or Death on her yet

The names with no dates I have yet to locate or translate those documents. Also the names in parenthesis could be the correct spelling or something close to it. Writing was hard to understand.

Any questions let me know!

Where do I start? Or what can I do right now?

Buy yourself a good note book and start a making notes about what you know and questions about what you don't know...

Easy places to start:

Obituaries and Prayer cards. Gather them up, you may need to write to Genealogy Societies and go to the library to find them but they are always great to have and sometimes are loaded with information.

Locate and photograph family graves. Most cemeteries will give you a map and grave location numbers. Having a records of final resting places is very important. Lots of times no one thinks of these people or visits them...so keep their memories alive.

Start a family tree on just paper, name the people you know about you may go back farther then you think. Make a notes of all the children your Grandparents and Great Grandparents had. Sometimes Grandparents don't like to talk about children they lost. So check death records online.

This will get you started, I got my start with an obituary and worked from that!

Italian Ancestors

Family Search has a page dedicated to Italian Genealogy this is helpful in finding out what records are available.

familysearch.org/italian-ancestors

Also has all kinds if tips about letter writing for Italian records, Italian Civil records and much much more. If your serious about these records, take the time to study this page. I use it all the time!

Latin Translation

Okay, this is where our families Genealogy gets tricky. All of records are hand written from Italy and often written by the Parish Priest at the time because he was the only one who could read and write. Most the records will have Latin and to help understand the records these are the most common works used in those records

Google.Doc Latin Translation

My advice would be to print these, there are 3 pages. And use them as reference. Trust me you'll need them!

This is the page that our Great Great Grandparent's Marriage. a huge thanks to the lady who helped me get this image and translated it with me:

So you think this is easy and quick? 

Here is a link to all the Italian Genealogy records Family Search has: Italian Collection

These records are somewhat indexed but they are images you need to look through. 

I applaud The Latter Day Saints for scanning and providing all these records for us to enjoy!