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Filiberto and Rosina DiIullo

"Ricordo della tua comare ed compare. Filiberto       Rosina" "Remember your godfather and godmother Filiberto and Rosina" Filiberto and Rosina Diullo (Ely, NV, originally from San Pietro) My mother did not remember who these people were. I put the photos on this web page and they were identified by Lorry Labate. See emails below. My mother says that in Italy, the title godmother and godfather would be passed down. If they were your parents' godfather and godmother, you also would call them godfather and godmother (comare and compare). Filiberto and Rosina's parents may have been my grandmother's godparents. According to my mother they were not anybody elses godparents. Lorry sent me a link which helped me find what is probably Filiberto's WWI Draft registration in White Pine County, NV (location of Ely) "Di Tullo, Filiberto     16 Mar 1888 White  S. Pietro a Vellona Italy"

Dorothy and Rosina Diullo Taken when Dorothy was in Junior High School. East Ely, NV Aug 27, 1937 Identified by Lorry Labate. See emails below.

1925 Filiberto diIullo and Family I received this photo from Dorothy diIullo Carrick who still lives in Ely. We visited her in May 2005. Rosina Rossi,   wife Filiberto diIullo, husband Guido, oldest son, born 1912 in SPA Dorothy, middle daughter, born 1920 in Ely Marion, youngest son, born 1923 in Ely Date is a guess by Dorothy who let me scan the photo. Taken in Ely, NV. Dorothy was born in 1920 and appears to be about 5 years old in this photo.

You can see Filiberto's (Albert) and Rosina's tombstone on the Ely Cemetery web page.

The folks on the two photos above were identified by Lorry Labate. I got this series of emails from Lorry:

I have since found that Rosina Vincenza Rossi is my grandmother's 2nd cousin. Lorry sent me a family tree that Dennis Diullo made up. Dennis is Dorothy's nephew. Our common ancestors are Giuseppe Frazzini and Felicia Colajanni. See the Family Tree for details.

May 2005 Trip to Ely, NV

Ely Cemetery

East Ely Railroad Depot Museum

Felice and Armando Carlini

Edmondo diSanza

1920 Edmondo diSanza and Elvira Rossolo

Filiberto diIullo (Diullo)

Giovanni "John" Mariani

John Mariani on the left. Silvana Ricci thinks the man on the right is Amico "Mike" Iannacchione.

John Athayde reports that his mother remember that man in the lower center is a "Francone" and the man in the back is Jim Colaizzi.
His parents agree that the person on the right is Mike Iannacchione.

Loreto Labate

About 1939 Loreto Labate, wife Francesca Carlini
and son Lorry

Engineer Loreto Labate on the  No. 40 of the Nevada Northern Railway.
This photo (undated) is probably from a railfan trip. See the book "Images of Rail - Nevada Northern Railway" by Mark and Joan Bassett (page 113) for more photos.

The No. 40 is still at the Nevada Northern Railroad Museum in Ely
and operating after a boiler rebuild completed in Feb 2005.

"Locomotive No. 40 is called the "Ghost Train" and was used for passenger service.
It was called the "Ghost Train" because it was hidden by railroad workers to keep it from being sold for scrap."
Source: White Pine Public Museum Historic Marker

According to the book, "Images of Rail - Nevada Northern Railway" by Mark and Joan Bassett (page 112),
Loreto was the engineer for #40 at the 29 Sep 1956 celebration of the 50th anniversary of the railroad. He was known as Jumbo Labate.
According to the book, "Images of Rail - Nevada Northern Railway" by Mark and Joan Bassett (page 109),
Loreto was the fireman on the last passenger train on the NNRY on 31 Jul 1941.

Visit with Dorothy DiIullo Carrick

Looking south from route 93 just north of Ely.

May 2005 Mark DiVecchio and Dorothy diIullo Carrick Taken in front of Dorothy's home in Ely, NV

Ancestral home of Felice Carlini and Letizia diSanza. 260 Fay Ave We met the woman who bought and still lives in this house. She bought it in 1947 from Marva Slight, the granddaughter of Felice and Letizia.

June 2005 Trip to Reno and Carson City, NV

Reno, NV

Carson City, NV

Maurizio Domenico Carlino

All the WWI Draft Registrations for men from San Pietro Avellana in White Pine County, NV

Calaizzi, Cesare 7 Nov 1895 W S. Pietro Avellana Italy White Pine NV
Calaizzi, Oreste 31 Dec 1893 W S. Pietro Avellana Italy White Pine NV
Calaronni, Periggio 10 Oct 1878 W rel. lives S. Pietro Avell. Italy White Pine NV
Carlini, Domenico Maurizio 13 Dec 1884 W rel. lives S. Pietro Avellana Italy White Pine NV
Carlini, Felice 26 Feb 1895 W S. Pietro Avellana Italy White Pine NV
Colaianni, Amico 28 Jan 1881 W wife lives S.Pietro Avellana Italy White Pine NV
Colaizzi, Cesare 7 Nov 1895 W S. Pietro Avellana Italy White Pine NV
Colaizzi, Vincenzo 27 Aug 1888 W S. Pietro Avellana Italy White Pine NV
Della Croce, Libario 26 Jul 1874 W rel. lives S. Pietro Arellona Italy White Pine NV
Di Florio, Michele 8 May 1880 W bro.lives S. Pietro Avellana Italy White Pine NV
	Record shows brother Erensto diFlorio in SPA
Di Sanza, Edmondo 21 Oct 1898 W rel. lives S.Pietro Avellana Italy White Pine NV
Sanza, Edmondo di 21 Oct 1898 W rel.lives S. Pietro Avellana Italy White Pine NV
Di Sanza, Ortenzio 15 Aug 1875 W wife lives S.Pietro Avellana Italy White Pine NV
Di Tullo, Filiberto 16 Mar 1888 W S. Pietro a Vellona Italy White Pine NV
Dicianno, Romoaldo 10 Aug 1877 W rel.lives S.Pietro D Vellano Italy White Pine NV
Ditanza, Ortenzio 15 Aug 1875 W wife lives S.Pietro Avellana Italy White Pine NV
Mariani, Incoronato 21 Apr 1875 W rel. in S. Pietro Avellana Italy White Pine NV
Settefrati, Ersenio 15 Apr 1892 W S. Pietro Avellana Italy White Pine NV

Eliodoro Frazzini

Ellis Island Notes

Boston Notes

SSDI Notes

Other Ely Trivia

Unrelated people born in Ely

1923 Antonetta 'Tonita' Labate and Dominick Piccinini, wedding phtoto, Ely, White Pine, NY

Date:            Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:07:12 -0600 From:            Valentine, Rayna Subject:         San Pietro connection Hello from a shirt-tail relative!  I was checking the internet for some information about the current state of the "ancestral village" of San Pietro and saw a link to the Ely Cemetery website you created.  It was great to take a walk down memory lane to see your pictures of the headstones.  My family traveled to Ely several times when I was younger and I spent many hours at Aunt Rosie's (Uncle Al was dead) eating huge meals and visiting with Dorothy's 2 kids and with Marion Diullo and his wife Zelda.  Domenic LaBate's sister is still alive--her last name is Kusmeric--and she has moved from Nevada after a hideous accident which cost her both legs.   My grandmother Dorantina Rossi Colaianni was the sister of Rosina Rossi Diullo, wife of Albert.  Grandma and her fiancé, Adelmo Colaianni left San Pietro, traveled to Denver to visit a cousin, (Cinea family), went to Pike's Peak where grandpa worked in the mines, then finally came to Pocatello, Idaho, to work in the Star Grocery owned by his father and his brother Antonio Colaianni.  Antonio and Adelmo's sister Josephine stayed in Youngstown and married a LaBate. My mother's oldest sister, Mary, has done some genealogical research and has a "minimalist" family tree for Grandma (Rossi) Colaianni's side.  I'll try to get a decent digital photo of it and email it to you if you're interested.  She also has photo albums with some fun old pix of the older Italian relatives--and one of the ones from Shirley that you show looks familiar to me. Must get a couple of things finished before I leave work.  Send me a reply if you'd like to have the photo of the family tree (doesn't show kids, just husbands and wives). Rayna Valentine

From: Mark DiVecchio Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 11:10 AM To: Valentine, Rayna Subject: Re: San Pietro connection Dear Rayna, Thanks for your email. As you may have read, Filiberto (Albert) and Rosina were somehow very good friends with my grandfather, Emiliano Frazzini. I had a chance to look at Filiberto's photo album (in the possession right now of their grandson Dennis Diullo). In that album were photos of my family from 1917 to 1945. Photos that members of my family either never saw or don't remember. I have many of those photos of my family on the web site. Rosina is related to me. And here, you are related to Rosina. Do you know Dennis? He would be a cousin of some sort. When my wife and I were in Reno a month ago, we met Marion and Dorothy's brother, Gene and in Ely a couple of months ago, we met Dorothy. I believe that Marion now lives in Las Vegas. I am always interested in any information about the countrymen from San Pietro Avellana. For the web site, I'd be interested in any photos that you think might be of interest to others. A quick look at the 1920 census shows Antonio Colaianni, Dorantina, 5 children, brother Tini(?) and father Emidio. I can email you this census sheet if you haven't seen it. If you have time, I'd love to hear more about your family. Ciao. Mark

Date:            Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:15:30 -0600 From:            "Valentine, Rayna" Subject:         RE: San Pietro connection Dear Mark, I do know Dennis, his 2 brothers, and his father Gene and mother Lena.  They visited my folks and we visited them many years ago, also.  I haven't talked to Lena for about a year. The woman I call "Aunt Rosie" was my mother's aunt because she was the sister of Mom's mother Dorantina, so she's a direct relative of mine, while Uncle Albert was an "in-law."  Rosie's younger son, Mom's cousin Marion, lives in Overton, Nevada, just a bit outside of Las Vegas.  Uncle Dean, another of my grandmother Dorantina's children, lived in Las Vegas until April when he died.  He actually lived with Uncle Albert and Aunt Rosie in Ely for his high school years so was very closely connected to Gene and Marion and Dorothy.  I forgot to tell you that there's one piece of info on the children of Daniele and Maria Rossi that needs to be altered:  the name of the one child is a male, Domenico, not Domenica, and he was the father of Rina, Licia, and Mimo Rossi, all of whom, except great-uncle Dom, are still alive and living in Rome or Campobasso.  I can provide you with some birth dates of Dorantina and Adelmo's children, too, to round out your info. Another brother, Italo Rossi died in 1973, but his 2 daughters Daniela and Luciana are still alive and living in Rome.  We just reconnected with them.  I email them fairly often and am planning a trip to visit them in San Pietro where they spend every August)next August if all goes well--which is why I was on the internet looking up SPA and found your Ely Cemetery site.  They still have an apartment in SPA, but it's tiny and we'll have to stay elsewhere.  Did you find a hotel nearby?  Did you know that the town fountain was built by some Colaianni relatives of mine (and therefore your shirtail relatives through Rosina, too?) The Mary Lacy referred to in your charts is the oldest child of Dorantina Rossi and Adelmo Colaianni, and is my mother's sister.  Mary is still alive at 92, but is in early stages of senile dementia so her memory is very unreliable but I have her photograph albums.  Aren't those old photos awesome! My grandmother Dorantina and her husband Adelmo lived in Pocatello, Idaho, on North 12th with Adelmo's brother, Antonio (who was always called Tony and is probably mis-listed as "Tini") and Adelmo's father, my great-grandfather Emidio Colaianni, and their children. In 1920, the kids would have been Gene, Mary, Dean, Viola (my mother) and Albert.  Ray and Virginia, the last 2 children were born after 1920.  All but Mary and Ray are deceased.  I'd love to see the census sheet!  I know next to nothing about tracing family history, how to interpret family trees, etc., but I've become really interested in family history lately--a bit late since my aunts and uncles have died or have failing memories, and was very excited to see what you've done.  One thing that has me puzzled is that there seems to be a record of "Colaianni" being spelled with a "j"--there's no "j" in the Italian alphabet, so it's likely that the "j" is a misreading of someone's handwriting, don't you think?  My mother, for instance, was actually named ElsaIola but the Americans couldn't read Grandma's continental letters so was called Elsie Viola, much to her chagrin because Borden's milk used to have advertisements featuring Elsie the contented cow! I'd love to hear how you got to SPA, etc. and share some more info with you.  Also, I discovered last night that I can take the family tree paperwork that Aunt Mary did out of its frame fairly easily, so can scan it and send it to you.  It will be interesting to see if spellings match up, etc. Thanks for replying so quickly. Rayna

Rayna, Great information. I entered your data into my family tree program and according to the program: "Rayna Valentine and Mark Camillo DiVecchio are 4th cousins. Their common ancestors are Giuseppe Giulio Frazzino and Felicia Colajanni" Not that shirt-tail after all. Take a look at the simplified ancestor chart, attached. Interesting to hear about Mary Lacy. Do you know Ellie Ferrero? I don't remember right off how they are related. Attached is the census sheet. I understand that "A. Colaianni" is really Adelmo, not Antonio as I mentioned in my last email. I'm sure the 'Tini' is Tony. Your mother's name is written in the census pretty much like a short version of her Italian name. As for the 'j', it was really a 'j'. In the records from SPA, the 'j' was the common spelling through the late 1800's. Then over a period of time, it changed to 'i'. Even today, both are used. I have a cousin in Roma and his last name uses the 'j' yet his brother uses the 'i'. He told me that when their births were registered, one person wrote down 'j' and another person wrote down 'i'. Spelling is something that does not exist in Italian. My father told me that they didn't teach spelling when he went to school. In Italian, you pronounce every letter (almost always) exactly as its spelled. This led to some odd variations of names and other words. If the person hearing your name, mis-heard it slightly, it got written down wrong. So I've learned to ignore spelling of names. 'i' and 'j' are interchangeable. Vowels on the ends of names changed all the time, in my case Frazzino became Frazzini and Carlino became Carlini. But for sure, the hand writing is VERY VERY hard to read. On the links page on my web site, there is a link to a page that someone did showing examples of each letter of the alphabet written by an Italian hand. In SPA, there is one hotel.  http://hotel-san-pietro-avellana.7mates.com/ You could also stay in Castel di Sangro which is a larger town about 4 miles away. We rented a car and drove from Roma to SPA. About a 3 hour drive. Driving in Italy is not as bad as they say. Driving in Roma IS pretty bad. We rented a car and picked it up at the Roma train station a 9AM on Sunday morning and then drove to the hotel, got our bags and drove directly OUT of town. On the autostrata and country roads around SPA, driving is a pleasure. Coming back to Roma, we planned on arriving about 2PM in the middle of the 'resting' time so the streets were pretty empty. There is train service to SPA but I don't know anything about it. Did you see my trip report from our trip last summer: http://www.silogic.com/Italy2004/Italy2004.html Please do send the scan of the tree if you can. If possible scan it at 300dpi and save it as a GIF or TIF file. That would be best for for written text. If you have any photos of SPA or even people from SPA, I would really like those as well. If its ok with you, I might use them on the web site. If you can scan those at 300dpi and save them as JPG files. (Boy, I am really a pain, aren't I?). On my web page there is a "hints" page about what to do if you want to do more research. Ciao. Mark

Date:            Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:44:47 -0600 From:            papabearnicoh.com Subject:         1914 photo taken in San Pietro Buona sera, Mark & Shirley, Here's a wedding photo I found with, wonder of wonders, a listing of the people on the back as well as the date of the photo.  From left, Advenza Mariani, her daughter Marietta and her groom, John DiSanza, and my great aunt by marriage, Lucietta Rossi (I think she was John's sister) who was the wife of Ostillio Rossi, who was the brother of Rosina, one of Mark's direct ancestors. The photo was given to my Aunt Mary [Mark's note: Mary Lacy, daughter of  Adelmo Colaianni and Dorantina Rossi and Rayna's mother's sister] by her cousin Elsie LaBate, the daughter of Ercole LaBate, who, if I'm not mistaken, was married to Josephine, my grandfather Adelmo Colaiani's sister.  The photo was dated May 27, 1914 and taken in San Pietro. Harold (my husband) and I are going to San P in August (2006) to meet Ostillio's granddaughters.  His family stayed in Italy and he went to work in America.  I think he died in Pennsylvania. Rayna  "Advenza Mariani, daughter Marietta, John DiSanza, and his sister Lucia" "Ricordi e saluti dal tuo cugino, John" followed by an undecipherable initial, followed by "S.Pietro Avellana 27-5-1914. A printed note regarding the photographer: "Promiato studio fotografico Vencenzo Gentile Castel di Sangro (acquila)" Mark's note: between Dave, Rayna and I, we are coming to the conclusion that this is not Advenza Mariani. The photo may have been annotated wrong. From Ellis Island records and SPA microfilms, we believe that the parents of Marietta (born Maria Beatrice Carlini in 1894) are Cosmo Damiano Carlini and Maria Domenica Labate.

Mark's Note: in Dec of 2006, I got an email from Dave DiSanzo. Dave ( railoneadelphia.net ) told me that this John diSanza is the brother of his grandfather, Luigi diSanza, and they are the sons of Giuseppe diSanza and Santa Labate. For more on this diSanza family, click here.

Email from John Athayde, Jun 2008:

From:    John Athayde <athaydegmail.com> Subject:    Ely, NV Date:    Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:04:41 -0700 Mark - My grandparents (Gabriel Perry and Ida Lombardi) were married in Ely and my grandfather was a brakeman on the Northern Nevada Railway (he started in 1942 before going into the service). His father-in-law (great-grandfather for me) was an Engineer (Henry Lombardi) and married to Giovanna diIullo. I was doing research on San Pietro Avellana (where my grandmother's ancestors are from - Musco and Lombardi) and your site hit pretty high up on google. When I showed them they were quite excited and started pointing out people. She knows that the surname of the guy in the lower center was "Francone" (phonetic guess on my part). The man in the back is Jim Colaizzi. But they remember a lot of the people in the photographs you've posted. They also agree that the person on the right is Mike Iannacchione. I'm starting to put stuff together from them and was looking to travel to SPA and try to do some research there. I travelled for 7 weeks in Italy during Architecture school but it was only major cities. Any recommendations from your recent travels over there? Cheers! John

John, Thanks for your emails. I've seen Henry Lombardi's name a lot in the Ely records from the railroad. He, along with Loreto Labate, were the two locomotive  engineers from SPA. I'd be interested in any other details that your parents might remember. May I use your emails on the web page? My notes show that the Lombardi family originally came from Forli del Sannio (about 7 miles from SPA) but I haven't been able to trace Henry directly back to that original family. Can you tell me more about your ancestors. I'd like to see if maybe we are related somewhere. Do you know if Henry's name in Italy was Enrico? When was he born and who were his parents? I've done some research also on the Musco family. Did you see my web page about Sant'Amico, the patron saint of SPA? There is a story about the Musco family who ended up in Lousiana. Its difficult to do research in Italy. Do you speak Italian?  There are records in the SPA Church going back to 1612. Have you seen the microfilmed records available from the Morman church (familysearch.org)? I'll be looking forward to hearing from you. ciao. Mark

From:            John Athayde Subject:         Re: Ely, NV Date:            Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:42:25 -0700 Mark - You may use the emails on the web page. Thanks on that info about Forli del Sannio. I've just started to dig back on my mom's side (my great aunt on my dad's side has 2500 names in her records, but no italians). I have a bunch of stuff back home that I will be able to dig out from last year. I know the Perry side is from Colosumi. I also know my grandfather's uncle Gasper Gigliotti served in the US Army in WWI, also on the railroad in France. He was born in Ogden, Utah and my extended cousins still live around there (all Perrys). On the Lombardi side, I know we have a bunch of stuff sketched out, but it's back home. I need to start putting it all into the computer. I'll do some digging and send it over when I have more. I don't speak Italian well (I can get myself into trouble and order food), but it looks like I need to get back into it. And I'll check the microfilm records out. I have not done much but am hoping to do a lot more in the next few years while all my grandparents are alive (they are all in their mid 80s). I did interview my grandparents last year and have that at home and that has a lot of extended information. I'm here with them for the next few days and will be trying to get more information written down. Also, I just found my great grandfather's ellis island manifest entry. Line 15 in the attached pages. It says he was going to visit his brother-in-law, which looks like Cesare Frazzini in Ogden, Utah. I know your site has a lot of Frazzinis. My Greatgrandfather's wife's last name was Gigliotti. When they were in Ogden, they changed the spelling from Perri to Perry. Thanks! John Athayde

John, I enjoyed the photos and info you sent about Bruno Perri. The Ellis Island manifest is really interesting. Its the first time that I've seen the surname Perri connected in any way to someone from SPA. My mother's surname was Frazzini and almost all the Frazzini's that I've ever found were from SPA. Cesare Frazzini was the Vice Italian Counsel in Ogden around 1910. The address, 200 25th Street, was a tavern owned by the Frazzini Brothers. There is a photo of it on my Ogden web page. http://www.silogic.com/genealogy/Ogden,%20UT.html I've found dozens of Italians who used that address on their arrival manifest. The Frazzini Brothers also owned a big store and bank in Denver. I don't know how they could be brothers-in-law. I think that I have Cesare's family pretty well worked out - but you never know. I notice that the manifest also says that Bruno was previously in the US from 1896 to 1908 - in Colorado. I've found that manifest on Ellis Island as well. If you like, I can email it to you. Is the town in Italy, Colosimi? I've found a town with that name in the province of Cosenza. The town is pretty far away from SPA. I couldn't imagine that the Perri's knew the Frazzini's from Italy. Any connection must be from the US. Its been fun doing some digging along your family line. Its producing more connections for me in SPA. ciao. Mark

From:            John Athayde Subject:         Re: Ely, NV Date:            Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:35:00 -0700 In line with the Cesare reference on Bruno Perri's Ellis Island entry, I noticed his entry on your site. Gabriella DiIullo was my great Grandmother's sister (Giovanna Crucifixa DiIullo, wife of Henry Lombardi, child of Daniel DiIullo and Fortunato Mosca). John

From:            John Athayde Subject:         Re: Ely, NV Date:            Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:46:36 -0700 Mark, That's correct. The Perri side is from Colosimi, and he (Bruno) married a Gigliotti. It's not until his youngest son that the Di Iullo/Mosca marriage line comes in (my grandparents). My grandfather doesn't think they were actually brothers-in-law, but It was an interesting  connection for sure to see that name pop up. From the  Di Iullos (Daniel DiIullo and Fortunato Mosca - Great Great Grandparents on Mothers' Mother's side) they had eight children. Three boys and Five daughters. Giovanna was my great grandmother. Gabriella was her sister (who parried Paul Anthony Mastroianni). The Marjorie Perry in that article is my mother. The photos were all of Gabriel and Ida (my grandparents) and my mom and down to us over the years. The walls here have a lot of older photos I'm going to start scanning. Cheers John

John and I have worked out a lot of his Lombardi, diIullo and Mosca ancestors. The info can be found in my Family Tree data base.

Fallon, NV