Found him!! Thank you all so much for your help!! And that IS him on the darft card, one of his sister's listed on the naturalization papers was "Tressa!"

His name was listed on his father's passenger records...like it listed all the kids, and he was born in 1899 and it said he lived in Pittsburgh, PA (that info. was recorded in 1917)

Hi, I was wondering if anyone new the English equivilant to the Italian name "Gaetano." I was looking for my ancestor, Gaetano Cuda, in the census records and I can't seem to locate him, in fact, I only found records on 1 Gaetano. I was wondering if there was and English version he could h...

Trish, Pasquale Rubino was born April 16, 1865. He went by "Frank" in the censuses but his real name IS Pasquale. His wife's name is Gaetana Tramuto (sp?), but she also went by "Mary." Their children were: Jennie, Julia, Helen, Elizabeth, Elvera, and Stella. I think they had more...

it took about a month...

Thanks everybody!

thanks! That does help!!

Hi, I've hit a brick wall in getting my gg-grandparents' naturalization papers...the censuses say they were naturalized bet. 1920-1930, and I send a request to Philadelphia for their papers and they sent it back saying they had no record for my gg-grandfather, Pasquale Rubino......I'm completely stu...

manifest records...are those passenger records? Wow, I didn't know there was a fire...I was wondering why I couldn't find anything on certain people

Do they have censuses in Italy...and if so, how do you get to them? I know there are birth/death records now...that would probably provide parents' names and that...but how would you get siblings?

Haha...lucky! I'm actually from Pittsburgh PA...but yeah, still too far for me, lol!

Interestingly enough, my gg-grandparents birth-names are Pasquale and Gaetana....for some odd reason, they changed their names when they came to the U.S. to "Frank" and "Mary." If they were going by the English translations, their names should have been Patrick and Gertrude. I ha...

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one! haha!

I've noticed on a lot of the censuses there are always a couple people living with my gg-grandparents who came over from Italy. Is it possible that they are relatives? I'm not sure, I don't recognize any of the boarders' surnames. But I tried looking them up, going by the name they had listed and I ...

Debbie,

Who exactly is James? This is the second time I heard of this name and I'd like to check out his site...do you have a link?

Thanks!

Ricky