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Descendants
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Scarlata notes for research
VOLUNTEERS IN GARIBALDI'S ARMY IN 1860
Cognome, Nome, Nome del padre, Luogo di nascita, Provincia
SCARATTI, Pietro, Giovanni, Medole, Mantova
The frequency of finding the Surname of Scarlata in Italy:
The frequency of finding the Surname of Indovino in Italy:
The frequency of finding the Surname of Lamantia in Italy:
Sicily Internet WebPages
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/sicily1/
http://www.comunesofitaly.org/Links.htm
Virtual
History of Sicily
A little Italian Immigration History
After 1880 the south Italians began to depart in great numbers. With
some exceptions they were poor, less well educated, and much more provincial
and unsophisticated than the Northerners. Most were contadini (peasant
farmers) including the mezzadri, or sharecroppers, who paid rent to absentee
landlords half (mezzo) of the wheat, grapes and figs that they were able
to coax from the rocky, unfertilized soil. The giornatieri (day laborers)
were even less well off, for they had no land to till and had to live mainly
on the small amounts of money they could earn at harvest time. Many of
our own ancestors were giornatieri, giardinieri (gardeners), carrettieri
(cart drivers), zolfatari (sulfur miners), and calzolai (shoe makers).
In the 1880s 268,000 Italians came to this country, although many in
this first wave went back home after saving enough money to improve their
status in Italy. In the 1890s, 604,000 came, and from 1900 to 1910 (the
time period of our grandparent's immigration) the all-time high of 2,104,000.
By the 1930s, a sixth of New York's teeming millions were from southern
Italy. Today, Italians rank second in number only to Germans among American
ethnic groups.
Map of Rochester New York
295 1st Street
379 North Street
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