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The following sources were used to prepare this site. Page specific sources are listed on each page.

Organizations

LDS Family History Center in Thousand Oaks, Ca

New York Public Library

National Archives in New York

Primary Sources - General

Atlante stradale d'Italia Sud. Milano: Touring Club Italiano, 1980,

Brooklyn City Directories 1900-1933

Brooklyn Eagle 1800s and 1900s

Irish National Census, Cavan County, 1911

Italian Telephone Directory

New Jersey Census 1905,1915

New York Census 1905, 1915, 1925

New York Census Enumeration District Map 1915

Passenger Lists, Port of New York 1880-1920

San Costantino Albanese Vital Records

San Paolo Albanese Vital Records

Sant Angelo dei Lombardi Vital Records

Social Security Death Records (Family Tree Maker)

Torella Lombardi Vital Records

U.S. Census 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920

U.S.A. Telephone Directory

Primary Sources - Individual

Birth Records(U.S., Ireland, Italy)

Communion Certificates

Death Records(U.S., Italy)

Interviews & records from Family Members especially

Stella (Brown) Sogga

Susan (Sundberg) Amato

Joan (Reilly) Wrezinski

Insurance Records

Marriage Certificates(U.S., Italy)

Military Certificates of Service

Naturalization Petitions

Naturalization Certificates

New York Public Library Photograph Collection

Union Cards

Secondary Sources

Brownstone, David M. Island of Hopes, Island of Tears New York: Rawson, Wade, 1979.

Chermayeff, Ivan. Ellis Island: an illustrated history of the immigrant experience. New York, Macmillan, 1991.

Chorzempa,Rosemary. Polish Roots

Coan, Peter Morton. Ellis Island Interviews:In their own words. New York:Facts on File, 1997.

Considine, Bob. It's the Irish. Garden City, NY:Doubleday, 1961.

Dydynski, Krzysztof. Poland. Victoria:Lonely Planet Publications, 1996.

Handlin, Oscar. Uprooted. Boston:Little, Brown & co,1951.

Latimer, Margaret. Two Cities: New York and Brooklyn the Year the Great Bridge Opened. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Educational and Cultural Alliance, 1983.

McCullough, David W.. Brooklyn… and how it got that way. New York, Dial Press, 1983.

Smith, Denis Mack. Modern Italy: A Political History. Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Snyder-Grenier, Ellen M. Brooklyn! An Illustrated History Philadelphia:Temple University Press, 1996.

Tifft, Wilton S. Ellis Island. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1990.

Willensky, Elliot. When Brooklyn was the World. New York: Harmony Books,1986.

Woodham-Smith, Cecil. The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849. New York: Harper & Row,1962.

Yochelson, Bonnie. Berenice Abbott: Changing New York. New York, W.W. Norton, 1997.

Genealogy References on the Web

Cyndi’s site is all you need

An invaluable reference on interpreting italian records

Other web references are integrated into the text

 

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