Monday,
October 22
Oral Histories of your Grand Parent -
Parents --Before it's Too Late!!!!!!
The
ANNOTICO Report
If
you do not want to leave your kids, and their kids wondering about their
ancestors, don't delay another second to get on Video (or Audio) the
Autobiographies of your living relatives, and their Italian and Italian
American Experience.
It
is probably the GREATEST Gift you could ever give to your progeny. Toys are
fleeting. Their Heritage is Forever, IF PRESERVED!!!!!!
The recent Shea’s Buffalo premier of Joey Giambra’s marvelous
production of "La Terra Promessa" and the airing of the film on WGRZ
brought piquant memories of my family’s first years in
The early
newspaper references denigrating those of Italian descent sounded eerily
similar to the complaints heard today about other minorities, yet the success
stories presented in the film remind us that anyone can achieve his dream in
Many descendants
of Western New York’s Sicilian immigrants
have lost touch with the heritage of their parents and grandparents, and the
vicissitudes they faced: in their homeland; on the voyage to
There is a
somewhat unknown resource here that can be used to trace their roots. It is the
Church of Latter-Day Saints’
Family History Center
in Amherst, (and in practically every town and city in the US) which has
available dozens of microfilms of original records of births, baptisms,
marriages and deaths from as early as the 1600s for Sicilian villages, as well
as microfilms from the Italian mainland.
I urge
Italian-Americans to take the initiative prompted by "La Terra
Promessa" and to connect with their ancestors.
Angelo F.
Coniglio, Amherst
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