[TI] Using Allegati records to find information

[Laura Johnson]

Franciene's problem was a good example of  working backwards to find 
details you need.  From the marriage document giving her age, it was 
easy to find the approximate year of birth and then find the birth from 
that.  If that had failed, then the most logical next step would have 
been to order the allegati record for her marriage as her birth document 
would have been included in that.

I can't stress the importance of getting the allegati records for the 
earlier marriages in your tree - especially for those who were married 
in the 1820's thru 1840's - to find information on their parents, 
baptismal documents if they were born before 1820, death documents of 
previous spouses or their parents, etc.  These documents contain a 
wealth of information.

When we went to Salt Lake City in 2006, I pulled the allegati records 
for my great grandfather Saverio Sansone.  It had a strange document 
included in the allegati.  It was a document from the Italian Consulate 
in St. Louis.  For years, my aunt and I had tried to figure out why they 
came to St. Louis.  There weren't any relatives in St Louis that we 
could figure out.  But this document in the allegati cleared up a lot of 
things we didn't know.

My great grandfather Saverio came to the US BEFORE 1890 and then went 
back to Termini carrying a letter from the Italian Consulate that stated 
that his future wife's father gave permission for her to marry Saverio.  
The letter is dated for November of 1889.  Saverio and Maria were 
married on Jan 15, 1890 and arrived in the US on Mar 4, 1890.  They were 
in St Louis by the end of March.

Through this document in the allegati records, I learned that Maria's 
father was in the US for a time before returning to Termini.  He died in 
Termini in 1922.

Laura Johnson wrote:
> no problem.  This was a minor mystery to solve.
>
> erinsmom wrote:
>> Laura,
>> You are a genius!  I did not see a "Maria" born to the couple. One
>> more mystery -- they never seem to end, do they? Thank you so much.
>> Franciene
>>
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