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From: "susanmartin" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] ini file and divorce tag
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 10:56:02 -0500
References: <4.1.20000703235002.00a14d60@pop.mis.net> <000901bfe5b9$9d2325a0$13dca7d0@pavilion> <003301bfe5c8$11e4f220$04500a3f@1pka7>


Margaret,

By the way, as advice you can offer me will always be more than welcome. I
am rather new at all of this and trying hard to learn how to find accurate
and correct sources for my mother's family. I am rather discouraged about
getting anything out of Italy because of a previous experience of getting a
ribbon and top for a medal my father was awarded by the Italian Government
during WW II. Seems that even my two state Senators could not accomplish it
although it was thoroughly documented by letters from two different high
ranking Italian officers.

Thanks
Susan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mills" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] ini file and divorce tag


> > . . . have been doing most of the
> > research of the computer for the moment. I found the ship on which my
> great
> > parents and three great aunts came to the Port of New Orleans. My
> > great-grandmother's name is listed there as Faccarino instead of the
> > Taccarina which I had. Things are getting a bit confusing around here.
> Try
> > convincing a herd of Italians that things might need to be changed just
a
> > wee bit.
>
> Susan -- This isn't part of the advice that you asked for, but I can't
> resist offering it <g>. It sounds as though you have found a derivative
> source for that ship roll rather than the original. In fact, if it's
online
> in a database it's likely to be a derivative of a derivative of a
derivative
> of a . . . .
>
> Odds are that your herd of Italians knows the family name better than the
> person who transcribed the ship roll. (If your source traces back to the
> Balch Institute's Italians to America series, the transcriber was likely a
> student.) In older penmanship styles, capitals T and F frequently looked
> alike; and o and a are regularly confused. For that matter, even if you
are
> using the "original" roll created at the incoming port, remember that this
> roll was usually *copied* from the roll created at embarkation. The clerk
> who made that incoming roll could easily have misread the writing on the
> original outgoing roll.
>
> Elizabeth
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG
> Editor, National Genealogical Society Quarterly
>
>

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