by Jerry Carbone | Apr 6, 2020 | Immigrants, Italian Genealogy, News, Yellow journalism
As we have seen in the previous post, four Italians were arrested and charged in the knife-affray of the evening of 14 April 1907 in the coal-camp of Carneyville, Wyoming. They were my great uncles, BrunoAntonio Carbone and Domenico Carbone; plus two other Italian...
by Jerry Carbone | Apr 3, 2020 | Immigrants, Italian Genealogy, News
The term “dago” is a corruption of Diego, a Spanish equivalent of James. It has been applied as a generic proper name to Spaniards. A name originally given in the south-western section of the United States to a man of Spanish parentage; now extended to...
by Jerry Carbone | Mar 31, 2020 | Immigrants, Italian Genealogy, News
May 2020 was the 125th anniversary of the first ancestor of my family to immigrate to the United States. Domenico Carbone (1878-1967), middle in the photo, was the first born son of Rocco Carbone (1837-1942) and Maria Perri (1856-1916) of Cirella, Reggio di...
by Jerry Carbone | Apr 18, 2019 | Brattleboro history, News
The last footnote, 162 (yes that is 162 footnotes in a 41 page article) of this scholarly essay in Winter/Spring issue of Vermont History, mentions a map, which is “…the first cartographic effort utilizing the caption “State of Vermont” to represent the...
by Jerry Carbone | Feb 1, 2019 | News
Highway during blizzard near Brattleboro Vermont 1941. The Library of Congress digital collections are not to be missed. Subscribe to one or several of the 93 different blogs or services from the LoC. They range from General News, Preservation News, Folklife News and...
