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Saturday July 28, 2007
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Missing Aunt

In the ship record I found for my Grandmother's family it noted that my Great-grandmother was coming to NY to "her daughter Italine". My father told me that he had never heard of an Aunt Italine. He gave me the list of all my Grandmother's sisters and brothers but no "Italine". The list included Helen, Mamie, Millie, Alfonso, Nicola and my Grandmother herself, Antonetta. No "Italine". When I visited my cousins in Brooklyn, I showed the ship record to my Dad's cousin Nick. He looked at it for a moment and then his eyes lit up! He remembered his family mentioning an Aunt Italia (the transcriber misspelled the name at Ellis Island). She lived in Brooklyn but she was stricken with the Spanish influenza abt. 1918 and died. I felt like I had lost someone close to me even though I never met her. She was only in her early 20's when she died. I went home that night and search for her ship record. I finally found them at around 2 AM. She arrived in 1913 at the age of 18 yrs. My goal is to find a photo of her and frame it with her ship record.