Author: Brian J. Costello
Location: New Roads, Louisiana
Date: June 30, 2004
Comment:
Saluti Paul, caro fratello Stefanesi:
Beautiful website of your family and our beloved ancestral home: Santo Stefano Quisquina. I am the great-grandson of Andrea Cacciatore (1876-1963) who in 1894 emigrated with his cousin Filippo D'Amico to New Roads, Louisiana where they established a mercantile store partnership serving a wide agricultural area. My great-grandfather purchased a portion of the St. Cyr plantation on False River near New Roads in 1915, grew cotton and sugar cane there, and the land remains in our family today. Our ancestors in SSQ include the families Cacciatore, D'Amico, Castellano, Cammarata, Filipello, Chillura Martino, Chillura Marino, LaGiorgia, LoCicero and Catanese. I will be pleased to know that we are related. Our last contact from SSQ was a letter from my great-great-uncle Vincenzo Cacciatore, living at Via Timpa 1 in 1959, but just this year - via email - I've been corresponding with a distant cousin, Natanael Greco Ferlizi, who has lived successively in Sicily, Portugal, Brazil and London. I am 37 years old, a professional historian and author of 15 books, and appreciate all efforts at the preservation of our origins, history and culture. Our very best wishes to you and all your family, as well as all the Stefanesi, wherever they may be. Grazie! Ciao!
Brian J. Costello New Roads, Louisiana

Author: Alberto Antinori
Location: Florence, Italy
Date: 6/5/2004
Comment:
hullo to the american branch of the antinori family! as i was trying to register www.antinori.com i came through your beutiful and interesting site, and i also learnt of ron's trip to florence with relevant visit to the antinori wine family & palace & wineyards. also my surname is antinori, i was born and live in florence, my family is florentine, and maybe my links to the "real" antinori family were lost centuries ago. but if next time any of you come to florence and wish to visit the "poor" branch of the family, you will be welcome! ciao! alberto antinori

Author: Doreen Di Bona
Location: Tampa
Date: 9/15/2003
Comment:
Paul, I am yet another cousin in Tampa. I'm not sure exactly how you and I are related, but I believe our great grandfathers may have been cousins. I met your father at my grandmother's home when I was a child, and he was introduced by my grandmother as a cousin.I found your guestbook on the web, and really do want to contact Liliana Pizzuto Antinoro, who wrote you in Jan.-Feb, 2003. She is the granddaughter of Angelo Pizzuto Antinoro, who was the younger brother of my grandmother, Paola Pizzuto Antinoro Di Bona. I maintain frequent contact with cousins (grandchildren of Antonino Pizzuto Antinoro, the youngest brother), who reside in Santo Stefano Quisquina.Please forward this message on to Liliana with my email address, so she can contact me. Thanks for hosting a site where so many cousins have discovered each other! Doreen Di Bona Tampa, FL

Author: Liliana Pizzuto Antinoro (24.61.68.131)
Location: Torino
Date: Sat Feb 22, 2003 10:10 am
Comment:
Hello Paul I have read your site web it is very beautiful, a testimony of the past that is not forgotten and that we may seek to re-live. I think that the history of our family must be known and not forgotten. What you know on the ancient origins of the Pizzuto Antinoro family, I have also known. I would like to see from which other countries has origin this family because in the books that discuss the native families of Santo Stefano, the Pizzutos Antinoros do not appear. I want to make some searches in the church of Santo Stefano and in common to find some traces, because in June I will go to Sicily for the feast of Santa Rosalia that is the holy protectress of Santo Stefano. When I am able, I go to Sicily because it is a splendid island. what I like more is that every angle of his is characteristic, every country is different from the other one it is an earth rich in testimonies of the past: Greek temples, Norman buildings, Spaniards and Arabic architecture. There are no words to describe to you the landscape and the Sicilian nature. The perfumes that come from the numerous aromatic plants that spontaneously grow. And Santo Stefano is very beautiful country, it is surrounded by trees of pines that in the summer bring the coolness. It is rare to find such a place so rich in water. I thank my grandparents that lived there. I have spent some summers as a child in Santo Stefano and I have had the opportunity of knowing the people and the Sicilian culture. So I have literally fallen in love with Sicily because of this and I am sending some photos of my paintings of Sicily. I have dwelled a lot to describe to you the Sicilian beauties and I hope that you can one day see the places from which your ancestors have lived. I am also starting further reasearch on the descendants of Salvatore Pizzuto Antinoro and I will send you what I know. Best regards from, Liliana Pizzuto Antinoro

Author: Phil Mondello (66.81.45.162)
Location: South Lake Tahoe
Date: Wed Feb 12, 2003 4:17 pm
Comment:
Good web site My Grandmothers maiden name was Antinori, first name was Carmela

Author: Mila Palko (68.98.169.222)
Location:
Date: Wed Jan 22, 2003 9:36 pm
Comment:
I was looking for info about my Dad's side of the family and this site came up. My grandpa was Stanley Palko son of Albert (or Adalbert as my Mom says it was).

Author: Liliana Pizzuto Antinoro (24.61.68.131)
Location:
Date: Sat Jan 11, 2003 2:09 pm
Comment:
My nome is Pizzuto Antinoro Liliana. I dont speak English. I was born in Santo Stefano Quisquina but my addres is in Torino. My grandfather Pizzuto Antinoro Angelo (was born 1906) was cousin with Pizzuto Antinoro Paolo because their grandfathers were brothers. My grandfather had six brothers in U.S.A, their names were Stefano,Ignazio, Andrea, Paolina, Francesca e Carmela. Their were born about 1880/1895, my grandfather was more little. My uncles come Italy in the 1964/65 I Like comunication for you. How old are you? Good by Excuse my not English I have 40 happy berday I picture and work in office computer end you Ciao ciao good-by

Author: Charles Rocco Antinori (205.188.209.10)
Location:
Date: Thu Dec 19, 2002 7:40 pm
Comment:
When did your family come to Ellis Island, and what part of Italy were they from? I am an Antinori that lives in New Jersey. I wonder if there is any relation -thanx

Author: Diego antinori (200.3.94.237)
Location:
Date: Thu Dec 5, 2002 1:41 pm
Comment:
hello, I am looking for information on my last name. I live in Argentina and my grandfather were called Ezio Antinori. I'd need your help to do it. Greetings atte Diego Antinori

Author: Gerard L Maggio (152.163.189.200)
Location: South Ozone Park, NY
Date: Fri Nov 29, 2002 6:42 pm
Comment:
Very nice site.Our Maggio family is originally from Santa Lucia del Mela Messina, Sicily. My father Joe "Cutie" MAGGIO (1906), his brother Frank "Smalley"(1907) and many of their cousins were born from 1904 and on, in the 1600 block of 4th Ave. Ybor City. After working in many parts of Florida, Eden, SanAntonio,Jensen, Titusville and Lakeland from 1898 to 1903, My great grandfather Salvatore MAGGIO his wife Salvatora(DONATO)and his family, including my grandfather Antoniofranco MAGGIO his wife Carlotta Felicetta(Cerai) and son Salvatore "Sharkey" (b. 1904 Titusville) moved to Ybor City. Family stories have the MAGGIO's building the ovens in the Ybor City Museum Bakery, years before the fire and rebuilding in the mid to late 1920's.

Author: Nico Antinori (24.221.203.221)
Location:
Date: Wed Nov 20, 2002 10:03 pm
Comment:
doing research. thank you.

Author: Thomas Williford (150.176.212.10)
Location:
Date: Tue Nov 19, 2002 11:35 am
Comment:
Looking good. I find it rather interesting.

Author: Jose Antonio Marrero (66.222.52.22)
Location: Kingsland, GA
Date: Sat Nov 16, 2002 3:40 pm
Comment:
I put my wife's name in GOOGLE and found your site (and her family tree). My wife is Linda Mary Argentiere daughter of Nick Argentiere (decendant of Vicenzo Pizzuto Antinoro). Great site, I have passed this link to my father-in-law and he is going to pass it on to the rest of the family.

Author: Myriam Antinori (138.232.1.228)
Location: Austria + Luxembourg
Date: Fri Nov 8, 2002 2:17 pm
Comment:
Hello to all people whose name is Antinori! Strange to find this site, i was just looking if any of my family members is mentioned anywhere in the internet. Never thought that there could be so many people called Antinori in America. I've always been quite proud of my name and would never change it, even if I should marry once. I am from Luxembourg and as far as I know some members from the Antinori family in the "marche" (village named talamello) immigrated to Luxembourg about 106 years ago. Me I'm living and working in Austria at the moment and hope to visit the village next year. Unfortunately I can't remember the names of my realtives right now who immigrated... but I don't think that we (you in America and me) have the same roots. Although: very interisting homepage, must have been a lot of work to find all those informations. Greets, Myriam.

Author: Todd Antinori (205.188.209.10)
Location: Manns Harbor
Date: Tue Nov 5, 2002 8:19 pm
Comment:
I am in the Antinori family im 11 years old will you write back Antinori family member Todd

Author: Fredy Antinori Hernandez (200.60.119.18)
Location: Guadalupe - Perú
Date: Sun Nov 3, 2002 11:55 pm
Comment:
Hi Paul Antinori.. well i'm an Antinori who didn't know his rich familiar history; i was surfing on internet and discover this site ...and i'm proud of being a Antinori. Well i live in Perú, i'm twenty and i'm a student of mecanic of machines.I promess to search information about my roots here and then enrich still more the knowledge of our origens. I hope your soon response...A big huge. Fredy Antinori Hernandez p.s. i hope my poor english don't be a problem to understand this letter.

Author: Brian Costello (65.80.156.220)
Location:
Date: Wed Oct 2, 2002 3:07 pm
Comment:
October 2, 2002 Beautiful website! Am descendant of Cacciatore, D'Amico, LaGiorgia and Anzalone families of Santo Stefano Quisquina, Sicilia. Am trying to get parents' names of Giuseppe Cacciatore (father: andrea, mother: ?)who married Rosalia D'Amico prior to 1876 and had three known children there: Andrea, born 1876; Vincenzo (living in Via Timpa there in 1959); and a daughter (name unkown at present). Grazie! Ciao!

Author: glenda garcia (209.4.44.189)
Location: tampa
Date: Fri Aug 30, 2002 2:27 pm
Comment:
I happened across your site doing my family history,and saw the stuff on rick casares.I remember as a little girl my father was the janitorial co.that cleaned The Huddle everyday.I would go with Dad sometimes, and Rick would bring his two dogs,Alfie & Josie.Rick and my father would go to the dog track.Anyway i would like to get a message to Rick, my father, Luis Garcia,passed away on Dec.19,1998.

Author: Alessandra Antinori (208.166.41.168)
Location: panama
Date: Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:51 pm
Comment:
Hello,my name is Alessandra Antinori and iam from Panama, City in Central America. Iam sixteen a years old,and had a brother who is named Aldo Piero Antinori and we and my father wich named is Frank Antinori will aprecciate if you could responde our message. My father grand grand father was borned in Bagni di Lucca,Toscana Italy at 1856.He came directly from Italy to Trujillo,Peru to constructed a big hospital. At the age of 27,he graduated of arquitect in Italy and then move to Peru. And his name was Egisto Antinori Bernardini,and he married in Trujillo,Peru.His younger son,named Egisto Antinori Larrea,came to Panama and married and founded our family here.One of his sons is named Humberto Antinori who is father of Frank Antinori.We will appreciate a lot,if you could look up in the Antinori family tree,Egisto Antinori Bernardini,so we could know our origins better. In the mine time, we are talking to my cousin Natalia Antinori who is General Consul from Panama in Venezia that is trying to help us too. Thanks,we will wait for your answer

Author: Andrew and John Cacciatore (65.33.173.84)
Location:
Date: Sun Aug 18, 2002 7:38 pm
Comment:
I am sitting here with my father marvelling at this site! Although my father's memory is incomplete on this, he recalls that his father Giulio Cacciatore was friends with your family. In fact, at one point in time, the Antinori's lived in an apartment in the back of Giulio's house on 25th avenue. Please let me know if your father recalls this, and if so, what does he recall of the relationship with my grandfather, since we are pulling together the family history. Also, we are trying to get history on Rosario Mortellaro, my maternal grandfather. Giulio was a past president of the Italian Club, and Rosario was an officer at one time, who also leased the bar at the Italian club.

Author: Richard Antinori (152.163.189.200)
Location: Columbus Ohio
Date: Mon Jul 29, 2002 2:49 pm
Comment:
Paul, I am Ernie Antinori's son, of Tampa, Florida. It was wonderful visiting your website and reading about the migration of the Antinori family to this country, as well as to Tampa. You obviously spent alot of time and energy putting all of this together, and we appreciate the work done. There is much information that would not otherwise have been so readily available to us. Thanks so much. We hope you are all doing well.Take care.

Author: Debra Antinori (205.188.209.10)
Location: Florida
Date: Sun Jul 28, 2002 9:00 am
Comment:
Hi Paul and to all the other Antinori cousins: I've just spent some time on the new website and it is fabulous. I know it has taken you a lot of time to gather all this information and I applaud you for it. Congrats on doing such a wonderful job.

Author: Theresa Payne (152.163.189.200)
Date: Sat Jul 27, 2002 7:33 pm
Comment:
Hi, My maiden last name is Antinoro. Just browsing and found this site. Thanks

Author: kira antinori barnes (66.0.147.50)
Location: jacksonville,florida
Date: Wed Jul 10, 2002 9:41 am
Comment:
hi i'm an antinori from tampa my grandparents are yolanda and anthony antinori(owned antinori steel products and my parents are anthony antinori jr and mary(antinori)menendez i have a brother christopher antinori. i think you did a great job on this website and a great thanks from all the antinori's for helping us learn a little more about our families and heritage.thanks kira

Author: Giuseppe Capobianco (151.29.25.232)
Santo Stefano Quisquina
Location: Santo Stefano Quisquina, Italy
Date: Sat Jun 22, 2002 11:59 pm
Comment:
Un uomo senza radici è un uomo senza storia! Grazie per avermi ravvivato l'orgoglio di essere stefanese. Un cordiale saluto a tutti gli stefanesi d'America.

Author: Vitale (Vic) M. Castellano (65.217.24.220)
Location:
Date: Sat Jun 22, 2002 11:07 am
Comment:
What a wonderful website! I still have much more to read and I am amazed at the number of hours it must have taken to put this all together.

Author: luciano ariel (200.43.65.133)
Location: argentina
Date: Fri May 10, 2002 10:37 pm
Comment:
Les comento que mi apellido es "Antinori", y quisiera sabe r si entre nosotros hay algún tipo de parentezco. Saludos Mi nombre: Luciano Ariel Antinori, hijo de Luciano Antinori, nieto de José Antinori,tengo entendido que éste último vino de Italia junto con otros dos hermanos, y que en italia quedó una hermana de nombre Santina Antinori, casada con un señor de apellido Geovanini, estos son los únicos datos que tengo. Mi abuela es de apellido Francescangeli, que es la señora de don José Antinori, aparentemente, y por los comentarios que he recibido de parte de mis tios, es que provienen de el pueblo de Tolentino, y que se encuentra en la provincia de Marques, o algo parecido. Sería un plaser poder contactarme con ustedes, sin más me despido con un saludo muy afectuoso.

Author: Dennis Jon Antinori (64.12.102.31)
Date: Sat Mar 30, 2002 12:38 pm
Comment:
Just come across this site, I'm a Canadian Antinori my dad was born in Newfoundland his name was Angelo but went by the name of Jim. Don't know to much of my father's family only that this father was a geologist from Florence Italy and come to Canada to work in Labrador and Newfouldland. He married an Irish girl, last name was Kelly.

Author: Jeannette Tamborello (65.34.83.232)
Date: Wed Mar 20, 2002 11:06 pm
Comment:
Paul, you've moved around the web a bit. I found you again, though! I just discovered I work with one of your relatives, Mike Antinori. He works for Delta, I work airport security (and DON'T make any jokes about it..lol). Saw his name tag and had to talk with him. He's super nice, he tried really hard to get me some Delta wings. Just thought I'd let you know we met. PS..Send me your new email address. ..jt

Author: Antinori Luciano Ariel (24.61.202.120)
Location:
Date: Sun Mar 3, 2002 1:03 pm
Comment:
Es un gusto poder contactarme con ustedes, en primer lugar les comento que mi apellido es Antinori, mi nombre es Luciano Ariel, soy hijo de Luciano Antinori, y nieto de don Jose Antinori, quien a su vez vino de Italia junto con dos hermanos. Estos tres hermanos, junto con otra hermana llamada Santina, vivian en el pueblo de Tolentino en el estado de Marques, es de agregar, que la Señora Santina Antinori es casada con un señor de apellido Geovanini, esta ultima, se quedo en Italia junto a su marido Estos son los unicos datos que tengo de mi familia, y quisiera, si es posible, saber si pertenezco a la tan prestigiosa familia Antinori que recide en ese pais. Sin mas me despido de ustedes con un afectuoso saludo. Mi pais de recidencia es Argentina, en la provincia de Santa fe, localidad Funes

Author: Vittorio Pulisci Antinori (200.48.217.67)
Location: Lima Peru
Date: Fri Jan 18, 2002 1:48 pm
Comment:
Dear Paul Im very excited after finding this site I was just surfing on the web when sudenly I tried to search something about my family th Antinoris that of course this was just a first try, well let me tell you that the Antinoris came to Peru at the end of the 19 century and he was my grand grand father his name was Antinori and Bernardini from his mother side and they came from Lucca in Toscani, my last name is Pulisci because from my fathers side we are from Sardegna, tutti noi parliamo italiano and abbiamo la doppia citadinanza allora siamo peruviani italiani, my age is 50 years old and I hav a doughter she is 18 and her name is Anna Fiorella, also my wife comes from an Italian family and her name is Ana Maria Maggiorini I would like to hear about you and let me tell you that this is great this is what people searching family hav to do Best regards and un forte abbraccio Vittorio Pulisci

Author: Lori Beckstrand (66.30.103.191)
Date: Sat Dec 29, 2001 10:41 pm
Comment:
Paul Hi! I spent this evening looking through your very interesting web site and thank you for all the information you have listed. I found many families by the same name as mine but no direct connections. Names such as: Albano, Greco, Cacciatore, Cagnina, Castillano, Diecidue, Ignacio - we knew he and Theresa Leto, Ferlita - we knew Lily and her son Sam and sister, Pullara, Riena and Rumore. Unfortunately I do not have any Antinoris on my family tree. The LDS church has several reels of vital records from Santo Stefano. I have spent a lot of time researching them and extracted many family names. From the research I have done I not only found the same families in Santo Stefano 200 years later but I also found that most of them were related to each other one way or another. It is obvious that we are from the same family even though I do not share your direct line but I will keep you in mind in any further searching and let you know if I find any Antinoris. I will check back to your site from time to time also to see if you have been able to find any more dates which would be very helpful. Good luck in your search - let's stay in touch - it's not every day that you find a new relative. Happy Holidays Lori

Author: Giuseppe Nicoletta (66.30.103.191)
Location: Santo Stefano, Sicily
Date: Sat Dec 29, 2001 10:34 pm
Comment:
Ciao Gentile Paul Antinori Sono molto felice di aver ricevuto la tua E- mail , tu sei un esperto in software , questo mi fa molto piacere , io purtroppo non capisco niente di computer e a dire il vero non mi sono mai piaciuti , la prima volta che ho mandato una E-mail è stata la tua , io lavoro con mio padre in un negozio e faccio molti lavori , elettricista, riparo elettrodomestici, ecc. , ma il mio lavoro principale è il tecnico del suono ( sound engineer ) noleggio impianti audio professionali e luci per spettacoli musicali , teatro, ecc. Io non scrivo inglese capisco un poco la lingua che ho imparato nei miei tre viaggi che ho fatto in America, ho letto che tua moglie parla bene Italiano , sa anche scriverlo ? Sono felice della tua intenzione di venire in Sicilia quando pensi di venire ? La prima domenica di Giugno si svolge la festa di S.Rosalia , perché non venire allora ? Io potrei fare la ricerca della tua famiglia negli archivi della chiesa ma preferisco farla insieme a te quando verrai a S:Stefano Quisquina , OK ? Tu mi chiedi cosa puoi fare per me , sarebbe bello se tu sviluppassi una web page che pubblicizzi il mio piccolo libro , penso che tu sia il più qualificato a farlo , e penso anche che tu sappia come fare per renderlo facilmente rintracciabile su internet . Io ho comprato ora il mio computer e come ti ho già tetto non capisco ancora niente , io avrei intenzione di passare tutto l?archivio della chiesa su computer , per poter fare l?albero genealogico di chi lo richieda immediatamente e dettagliatamente. So benissimo che è un lavoro enorme e possibilmente ci vorranno anni ma spero di riuscirci , ( sono 500 anni di certificati da trascrivere , oltretutto scritti tutti in latino !!! ). Per fare questo ho bisogno di un programma per il mio computer , che sistemi automaticamente nell?albero genealogico i vari dati che man mano io vado immettendo , nascite , matrimoni , morti . Tu potresti farmi avere un programma del genere possibilmente in italiano ? Dimenticavo , io sono nato il 28/01/1963 , sono sposato con Collura Sarina ( di professione insegnante ) e ho 3 figli , Irene 13 anni , Giorgia 8 anni , Domenico 3 anni, io ho il diploma di insegnante anche se faccio lavori diversi da quello per cui ho studiato. Un saluto a te e tutta la tua famiglia , restando a tua completa disposizione per qualsiasi tuo bisogno. Ciao a presto.

Author: Paul Camp (66.30.103.191)
USF Library Special Collection
Location: Tampa
Date: Sat Dec 29, 2001 10:31 pm
Referer: From a Friend
Comment:
The Unione Italiana collection consists primarily of membership records [payment of dues, etc.] and copies of the director's meeting minutes, plus some printed ephemera. If you are interested in the history of the club, or of the Italian community in Tampa, I'm sure you'd find the records useful. If you are interested in family history, there is virtually nothing in the collection relevant to genealogical research. The documentation includes no personal information about specific members or their families. There is at present no specific plan to digitize the collection, though we would eventually like to do so, along with the other mutual aid society papers in our library. Our mailing address is: Special Collections, University of South Florida Library, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620. I hope that this information will be helpful. If I may be of further assistance, please let me know. Paul

Author: Don Antinore (o/i) (209.105.134.43)
Date: Tue Dec 25, 2001 1:44 pm
Comment:
Hello Paul and all the other (possible cousins!) I am happy to see your website and I'm excited to initiate some dialogue with you and possible discover links between our common named families. I have been working since 1976 on the Genealogy of the Joseph/Vincent/mechella & Maria Grazia (2 brothers and 2 sisters who immigrated to Ellis Island at the turn of the (last) centure....the brothers married 2 sisters, Vincent in Sicily and Joseph (my grad dad) here in LeRoy, NY. Lots to share if you're interested. I have more than 800 names that are verified relitives....either married in or actual direct descendents.........what do you say...let's get going via e-mail....I'm sure there's something here. And...............thanks for all teh work you've done and the distance you've covered. Wow! Big job and sooooooo rewarding being a bit of a snoop for histories sake. "Cousin" Don Antinore in LeRoy, NY [8692 Lake Street Road.....zip: 14482]

Author: Cheryl Alexander (208.136.213.33)
Cemeteries of Florida
Date: Mon Dec 10, 2001 1:46 pm
Comment:
Actually I found this site through my referral list on my stats. I may be responsible for the misinformation about the origins of Sacred Heart Church. I don't even know if the St. Louis Catholic Cemetery is even named for a church. If you look on my site, you will see that that factoid is gone. The old cemetery located on the corner of Woodlawn Cemetery is the Old Centro Asturianos Cemetery. It is on land that was donated(?) or sold by the City of Tampa for that purpose. The L'Unione Italiana Cemetery was always in its location. As far as I know, there was no precursor for them. They did buy the land from the Armwood family who already had some of their dead buried there. There is a small corner that is designated S.M.S. Italia which is a splinter group from L'Unione Italiana. I'm always learning and trying to correct any mistakes that I make.

Author: Ernest Joseph Antinori Jr. (63.208.200.92)

Location: Tampa FL
Date: Sat Dec 8, 2001 10:32 pm
Comment:
Paul thanks for the contact. I am busy now trying to find when and where my grandfather was born and when he came to this country. I'll be in touch later Butch

Author: Michael Rudolpho Ferrara Jr. (152.163.204.57)
Anime Sanity
Location: Orlando
Date: Thu Dec 6, 2001 10:00 pm
Comment:
Hey, My name is Michael Rudolpho Ferara Jr. Im the son of Michael Rudolpho Ferrara, I just wanted to say Hi and how are you doing even though we havnt met. I hope we could meet some time, I believe we are related to some degree, anyways im 13, and live in Orlando, Florida, and often visit my dad in Tampa Bay, Florida, so if you dont mind could you please respond to this e-mail asap, thank you.

Author: Joe Locicero (207.173.204.173)
Oregon Performance Products
Location: Hillsboro, Oregon
Date: Sat Dec 1, 2001 11:17 pm
Comment:
Thanks for more insight into the decendants of Santo Stefano, Quisquina. Both Vince Pardo (his paternal grandmother is my Aunt- his Dad was my first cousin). Constantino Pandiello II, also from Tampa, sent me my paternal grandmother's photo. She (Rosalia Gullo Locicero) is Constantino's Great Great Grand Aunt. Joe Locicero

Author: Lauren Davis (65.161.226.217)
Date: Fri Nov 30, 2001 9:40 am
Comment:
I was searching through interest in my family history. My Great Grandmother, Grandparents and Mother are Antinoris and I was curious as to the origin of the name and its history. I am aware of the vineyards and their location. However, I was more curious as to where the name of our family originally started. My grandparents reside in Tampa, Florida and I read you Family Reunion reminder. Our family doesn't really know that much on the history of their name and I was wondering if you could help me out. E-mail me back for more information. Thank you, Lauren Davis

Author: lucas (200.45.159.208)
Location: Argentina
Date: Sat Oct 6, 2001 9:53 pm
Comment:
does anybody know the family tree from the Antinori´s family, i need to find the people who came from Italy to Argentina. please send me a messaje to lucastitos@hotmail.com

Author: Jeannette Tamborello (66.30.102.32)
Date: Tue Aug 28, 2001 6:55 pm
Comment:
Paul, hello! So glad you're still out there. I just "devoured" your page, it's super! Thank you so much for sharing it with me. May I share it with my family as well? I especially enjoyed the excerpts from Angelo Massari's book. Honestly, I had just had a conversation with a friend, saying I wondered what the trip was like for my Nanas and Nanos; how they felt when they got to Ellis Island; what they ate; how they got from New York to Tampa, and so on. In fact, the friend I had been talking to about the voyage, just today, sent me the link to the Scozzari(o) - Adamo Family Home Page, what a coincidence! That friend, who's name is Amber, also has a family page of her own. She now lives in NC but in the old days her great grand parents lived on 12th Avenue next to my Nana and Nano. Do check her page, the addy there is: http://www.members.tripod.com/womanola/index.html If it's ok with you, I'd like to also give her the addy to your page, as well. To answer your questions. I'm not sure what kind of information you'll be looking for when you come, so I'll throw out everything I know and hope some of it helps. Yes, the best place to peruse the Tampa Trib is at the library, though you can do searches at the Trib itself. But the Trib makes you pay for stuff. Are you familiar with the USF Special Collections Dept? It contains most of our local historical data. The public library (downtown) has quite a bit, also, but the major bulk of it is at USF. USF also houses the complete collection of the Burgurt Bros. You're right, THOR is helpful but only for the headlines. I'm going to give you some of the site addresses, in case you aren't familiar with these places. You can check them out online and get the info you need/want for when you get here. USF is online at: http://www.lib.usf.edu/spccoll/guide/c/casturia/index.html This will take you to the Centro Asturiano records, but you can get to the main page from there. In the Centro Asturiano collection you'll find the membership lists (men separate from the women!) and most of them have photos. Our City Archives houses the records of the city's cemeteries as well as city directories, maps and lots more stuff that I haven't discovered yet. You can go in to the office and search their records, they have been much more than helpful to me in the few times I've been in there. They have a website that tells about the Archives office. http://scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us/menus/production/tarchives.html I just recently learned that Sacred Heart Church was formerly St Louis Catholic Church. They have a St Louis Cemetery tucked into a little corner of the cemetery downtown -- Oaklawn. Also, in a corner of another cemetery, Woodlawn, is a tiny but very, very old "Italian Cemetery". I don't know if it's the forerunner of the Unione Italian Cemetery or not. It's a spooky little place whose gates close and lock at around 3 PM. I didn't get to go in there the day I discovered it, I was doing a cemetery search for someone else and didn't really have the time that day. Too, I was alone and didn't particularly want to go into that place without company. This is probably the best collection of photographs ever! We are sooo fortunate to have them. If you haven't looked at all of them, do, you'll see so many familiar corners and intersections and addresses. I love just perusing in there. http://www.lamartin.com/burgert/index.htm This one's interesting but is also only titles. It's the Sun Trib from 1893 to 1904. It does list births and deaths and marriages (and hangings), but I think you had to be particularly affluent or particularly scoundrel-ess to have gotten your name in the paper. It's really interesting reading, though, I love reading how they spoke in those days. To access the individual pages you have to first scroll down and click on 'jpeg images'. http://susdl.fcla.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~fdl/fdlcgi?SF45165245%2Fpdf You can view these articles at the main library. This site may be helpful, it lists some cemeteries but mostly the sub-urban ones. I found plenty of the folks I was looking for in the Civilian Draft Registration. If you search the Civ Draft section, go through and look at each name, don't rely on the name being spelled correctly. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/fl/toc/hillsborough.htm More photos: http://site.lib.usf.edu:10094/WebZ/Authorize?sessionid=0&next=startscreen&bad=html/authofail.html I hope something in here helps. Also, if you want company on your cemetery treks let me know, I've been trying to get to the St Louis Cemetery since I heard about it. I have 3 "aunts" who died in infancy that I haven't been able to find in the Unione Cemetery. Let me know if I missed anything, or if there's something you would like me to do in advance of your visit. I'll be more than glad to help do whatever I can. Please let me know if there's anything else you need, Paul. Your page is great, thanks again for sharing it with me. ..jt
Author: Ignazio Cacciatore (66.30.102.32)

Date: Tue Aug 28, 2001 6:50 pm
Comment:
Padua, 25 August 2001 HI! My name is Ignazio Cacciatore, and i was born in Torino the 4TH of march, 1977. First of all, sorry for my not so good english... I decided to write you reading the little excerpt about your story and your genealogy, found surfing by pure chance through the web. My father, Filippo Cacciatore, and my mother Leto Barone Vincenza, are togheter from Santo Stefano Quisquina, the little town left by your great-grandfather, I think, about the end of eighteen century. I've a great grandmother, from my father's side, I don't remember her name now, born in Tampa, Florida, in 1900. And the father of my grandmother, from my mother's side instead, Mr. Valenti, lived in New York for a long time, coming back in Italy after second world war, and leaving there some cousins... I think I've a lot of relatives lost all aroud United States! I'm really interested about the origin of my family and I confess that is really exciting reading about your interest for your italian root. I spend quite often my holiday (at least one time every two-three years) in Santo Stefano, and I think you should get ther once, to see the little town of your great grandfather! If you're interested, I've a lot of photos, books, and other stuff about Sicily and Santo Stefano Quisquina, and I could ask if there is some descendant of your family still living in the town. It's not the first time I heard the name "Antinori" and I think, if you're able to give me all the information you have about your great-grandfather, I'll be able to get some news for you. About me, I live in Padua, about 35 km far away from Venice, I work like customer service support for a mobile phone operator and I'm reading for a degree in economics in the University of my city. I hope I can get some news from you and I hope you found pleasing finding in your mailbox this letter, CIAO! Ignazio Cacciatore

Author: Vince J. Pardo (152.163.213.62)
Vince J. Pardo Homepage
Date: Sun Jul 8, 2001 11:51 pm
Comment:
Great work Paul. I've just reviewed the site...It's bellissimo. Your Diecidue cugino Vince Pardo

Author: Paul Antinori (66.30.102.122)
Location: North Andover, Massachusetts
Date: Sun Jul 8, 2001 7:09 pm
Comment:
I would like to say, "hello" and best wishes to my family "The Antinoris" and all of their families. I hope you sign this guestbook if you are related to the Pizzuto-Antinori family originating from Santo Stefano Quisquina in Sicily, Italy. I am thrilled about the website, and am doing ongoing genealogical research into the Pizzuto-Antinoris.