"Nine attendees were present for the latest meeting of the Mazzei PIP on January 16, 2010. This was our first meeting at our (anticipated) new location, the Tysons-Pimmit Library in west Falls Church, VA. Several members attended luncheon afterwards at Pulcinella's, in McLean, VA. Similarly, our new Internet location is http://circolomazzei.50webs.com/ and the porting from the old one is complete. We plan to continue to meet quarterly during 2010.
Paul Traunero (1541) noted that a small display relating to Filippo Mazzei is at the Michie Tavern, near Monticello. Mazzei was at one time a neighbor to Thomas Jefferson and is the namesake of our PIP. He also made available the letter from POINT about the PNC 2002.
Elisa Ulino (2301) is searching in the Basilicata area. Since the last meeting, she went to the Jamaica, NY and reviewed the list of newspapers for Long Island City. She found an obit from 1926 of her great-grandfather that listed the locale of the wake. Later in a trunk at her uncle's house she found a picture of the casket that also had a picture of her great-grandparents that was large enough to enhance.
Visit our website linked at POINT: http://www.point-pointers.net/PIP.HTM"
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"Il Circolo Mazzei met for the second time at our new location (probably for the next year), the Tysons Pimmit Library on April 24, 2010. The smaller conference room provided the space for 12 attendees, all familiar faces. We continued to run the meeting in a round-robin sharing format, all the while asking questions and getting suggestions for ensuing research.
Paul Traunero (#1541) reported that his family visited cousins in Italy over an extended spring break. It was seven years since the last trip, so there was much catching up to do. Paul's oldest cousin, Bruno, turned 90 last year, but is still in good spirits and lives by himself, below his daughter's flat in Udine. Visits to the cousins in Artegna (http://www.comune.artegna.ud.it/) reacquainted each other as well as provided an opportunity to meet some "bambini" for the first time. Updating vital statistics was also in order. The trip ended with side visits to several comune in "Le Marche" (http://www.bellemarche.co.uk/contact.htm) where his wife's cousins, confirmed on Facebook were met in person and her paternal grandfathers birth certificates were obtained at the "stato civile" in Civitella del Tronto (TE) dating to 1862 and 1834.
Elisa Ulino (#2301) enjoyed her attendance at the NARA genealogy fair (http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/events/#gene-fair).
Margaret Cutino (#3538) recently reviewed several dates from her maternal grandfather's naturalization document that turned out mostly to be incorrect, noting that he was naturalized some 20 years after arriving. She also related that her earlier reference to a "certificato medico" (mentioned on P.I.E.?) is still not definitive; some believe that it is of a more recent use.
Joe Pelczar (Margaret's husband) continues his research of his Polish heritage, but has found references to current southern Poland once being part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, as were parts of northern Italy.
Marie V. & Bob Melchiori (#2828) informed us that NARA is reaching out via the new social media (http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/)--check out the categories in the right panel. Many records are being digitized via partners and they are devising a way to provide NARA feedback as to errors and corrections.
Richard Camaur (#3158) is scheduled to give three talks at this year's national NGS conference (http://members.ngsgenealogy.org/Conferences/2010Program.cfm) on linguistics and church records. He also noted that some towns of our ancestors have published books and online with pictures from the past of interest to genealogists (e.g. http://www.historyofredding.com/HRpictures.htm).
Armando Rod Paolini was able to locate descendants of a great-aunt via the online upstate New York newspaper list that was provided by Marie at our last meeting (http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html).
Dan Else mentioned two recent television programs with similar angles to genealogy: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/ and http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/.
Donna Dengler has recently gone through photo negatives as a result of her mother's recent passing. During the work, she also was afforded pictures for scanning that her aunt possessed, but did not show much interest in.
John DiBela (#5267) received a telephone call from someone as a result of our Mazzei minutes published in POINT. As a result, John is one of their newer members! He recently read a book on a study of Italian peasantry--a review can be read at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&isbn=9780226042084.
Please consult http://circolomazzei.50webs.com/ for our schedule of the next meeting."
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"Il Circolo Filippo Mazzei had a small turn-out of four (4) members for their latest quarterly meeting on July 24, 2010 at the Tysons-Pimmitt Regional Library in West Falls Church, VA. We used the opportunity of a smaller group and access to Ancestry.com to make queries via Stephen Morse's interface for some remaining, troublesome ancestors of the attendees. Unfortunately, no positive returns were received. Attendees were Paul Traunero (#1541), Dave Ciummo (#4638), Jane Ferrigno (#3693) and Elisa Ulino (#2301). The conference room at the Tysons-Pimmitt Library has been reserved on October 9, 2010 for our subsequent meeting. Mark your calendar! "
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"The October 30st meeting of Il Circolo Mazzei was attended by six people at the Tysons Pimmit Library. We had some general discussion interspersed with the round-robin format. Our next meeting will be in January 2011 and will be posted on our Website <http://circolomazzei.50webs.com/index.html#next>.
John DiBella (#5267) has extracted information from US Army sign-ups for WWI of his ancestors. He also has been researching the rise of the immigration restrictions that were enacted into laws in 1921 and 1924.
Elisa Ulino (#2301) has been verifying birth dates on her father's side with records at the Family History Center in Kensington, Maryland. That facility has machines that can scan microfilm and save images onto flash media.
Anne Jeffery (#4845) made a family album using the <http://www.picaboo.com> Website. You can work interactively for months before paying for the finished product, which can also be shared. She asked what genealogical software others are using: The Master Genealogist, Reunion and RootsMagic.
Rod Paolino has been wondering what events may have prompted his ancestors to return to Utica, NY after having moved to Chicago around 1900. He was given tips to use the local genealogical societies for local information look-up and the county courthouse for naturalization papers.
Paul Traunero (#1541) reported the pleasant surprise in reading the Friuli article in the Autumn 2010 issue of POINTers (pp 8-10) as his relatives live there. He repeated the value of the city directories for tracking relatives residences between Censuses as well as occupations <http://loc.gov/rr/microform/uscity/>."
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