Pam and Nancy were contacted by cousin Norma who sent Pam this large photo of grandma Lea with her family. Below that are other documents including a marriage certificate and a 1930 census. See full census for 1920 and 1930 on the Document Page. There was no census in 1940 due to the war.
From Nancy: John (Krug) recently looked up Grandpa Perugi online and found information about his brother, Randolpho, who also came to the US at the same time. John discovered that Randolpho’s son, Alfio, passed away this past October (2016). He was 97 years old. I also did a Google search on Alfio and found several YouTube videos that someone posted. I received a card last Christmas from Alfio’s sister, Eugenia (Jean). She and Mom (Violet) were close cousins.
We are going to NYC with my brother Ed Slate and our families on Dec. 26 for 3 days. While there, we will go to Saint Patrick’s Cathedral to see Grandpa’s Pieta. I just read the New York Time’s article that Deb posted here about Grandpa’s last carving which is in the Church of Our Saviour (Park Avenue and 38th Street.) I recall going to watch Grandpa work on the carving that was featured in the article.
I have a copy of an organized list of all the family names, marriages and children from the 1800’s to our generation, not including our children. Pretty exciting to see all the names we never heard of and some we know. We have cousins about our age that we never knew about! Our list is on page two. Find these items in the Old Italy Gallery.
Note: The list came with a letter from “Dipl. Ing. Oskar Francini”, WIEN III. I think that is Vienna. There is information in german on the list as well.