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Author: Jeannette Tamborello (66.30.102.32)
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Date: Tue Aug 28, 2001 6:55 pm
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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
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