12 Months of My Family Tree in Print ~ April

This was a quiet month for my family when it came to the press.  However, you may remember the news coverage of a murder in Chicago which saw pictures of my great grandmother Helen Kirsch Ferraro blasted on the front pages of The Chicago Tribune and the home address of her parents Louis and Anna printed in the paper.

So, on April 5, 1907, she was mentioned on page 2 of The Chicago Tribune, because authorities in Brooklyn finally arrested the suspected murderer of Mrs. Louise Gentry Frank Constantine.

Here is a snippet of the headline on the front page of the paper that day:

As the coverage continued on page 2, she is mentioned in the following paragraphs:

Frank Constantine leapt to his death in prison after his conviction.  What a story the whole case was.

Take care, stay safe, and listen to the health experts.  Do you have any comments, corrections, or additions?  Are we related?  Email me: cinziarosagenealogy@comcast.net.

 

 

 

The 1817 Typhus Outbreak and Famine of Abruzzo and My Family Tree Part 3 ~ Giuditta Urbania Dell’Orso, 55

My fifth great grandmother Giuditta Urbania Dell’Orso was born around 1762 in Farindola to Urbano Dell’Orso and Candelora Ciarma.  She passed away at age 55 during the typhus outbreak in Central Italy on February 26, 1817.

Giuditta had AT LEAST two siblings named Giustino and Agostino.

Some time before 1785, Giuditta married Domenico Antonio Lucerini when their first child I could find in the Farindola civil records appears to have been born.  Their children are as follows:

Maria Concetta Lucerini, born 1785, married Antonio Di Luca;

Maria Domenica Lucerini, born 1787, married Matteo Cirone;

Domenica Lucerini, born 1789, married Filippo Andrea Lizza;

Anna Vincenza Lucerini, born 1792, married Diego Pompili;

Carmina Lucerini, born 1794, married Giovanni Lacchetta;

my ancestor – Antonio Lucerini, born 1801, married Giovanna Damiani (daughter of Domenico Damiani and Laura Rosa.)

There may be more children I have not yet located.

My ancestor Antonio married my fourth great grandmother Giovanna in 1825.  His father Domenico Antonio passed away in 1846.

Antonio and Giovanna had at least 11 children.  Their daughter Anna Emidia Lucerini was born in 1830 and she married Luigi Di Francesco – which makes them the grand parents of my great grandfather Paolo Di Francesco.

My great grandfather Paolo.  He had blue eyes.

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