HEY, ANY SCIACCA'S OUT THERE? I'M DOING FAMILY RESEARCH FOR SCIACCA FROM LOS ANGELES, AND NEW ORLEANS. ALL INFO WELCOME

I'm research our family history. I found my great grandfather Antimo Sciacca who was married to Consiglia Zannini. Antimo children were Guido (from previous marriage I think)Pasquale, Josephine, Joseph (my grandfather), Antonio, Thomas. Antimo died in Feb of 1940. His death certificate said his mother's name was Tecola Razza and it did not list a father or where in Italy he was born. I believe that he was illegitimate. I some of the geneology books babies born without fathers were orphaned and the last name given was the town in which they came from - ie: Sciacca Sicily

My great grandmother was from Oreiano, Naples. I know that from the ship's manifest it stated that she had a brother Phillipo from Milford, MA and a brother who she was traveling with named Antonio.

Email back any Sciacca / Zannini info.
I use the Trafford Cole Italian Geneology book which is a great resource.

Thanks
Patty

Looking for information on the name Sciacaluga or Sciaccaluga. I am from Gibraltar

and can trace my family to the Sestri area of Genoa, when Bartholome
Sciacaluga came to Gibraltar in 1759.

Can you help with any information and contact

Hi Sciacaluga!
Do you have a first name? My family name is
Sciacca. I have traced my great grandfather.
His name was Antimo Sciacca. He married my
great grandmother Consiglia Zannini in
September of 1907. Consiglia came from
a village called Oreiano Naples. She took the
Genoa route to Boston in June of 1907. She
was already pregnant with one of my uncles named
Guido. We are still tracing everyone's
history so I am searching the Mormon Library
in Exeter New Hampshire, USA. They charge a
$3.00 fee to rent the soundex card which list
the ships and all the immigrant names. May
be I will find Antimo and find out where he
came from. Email me with your info and we may
be able to work together.
Good Luck
Patty Sciacca Crafts

Hi Sciacaluga!
Do you have a first name? My family name is
Sciacca. I have traced my great grandfather.
His name was Antimo Sciacca. He married my
great grandmother Consiglia Zannini in
September of 1907. Consiglia came from
a village called Oreiano Naples. She took the
Genoa route to Boston in June of 1907. She
was already pregnant with one of my uncles named
Guido. We are still tracing everyone's
history so I am searching the Mormon Library
in Exeter New Hampshire, USA. They charge a
$3.00 fee to rent the soundex card which list
the ships and all the immigrant names. May
be I will find Antimo and find out where he
came from. Email me with your info and we may
be able to work together.
Good Luck
Patty Sciacca Crafts

Hi Sciacaluga!
Do you have a first name? My family name is
Sciacca. I have traced my great grandfather.
His name was Antimo Sciacca. He married my
great grandmother Consiglia Zannini in
September of 1907. Consiglia came from
a village called Oreiano Naples. She took the
Genoa route to Boston in June of 1907. She
was already pregnant with one of my uncles named
Guido. We are still tracing everyone's
history so I am searching the Mormon Library
in Exeter New Hampshire, USA. They charge a
$3.00 fee to rent the soundex card which list
the ships and all the immigrant names. May
be I will find Antimo and find out where he
came from. Email me with your info and we may
be able to work together.
Good Luck
Patty Sciacca Crafts

There are desendents of Sciacca's living here. My grandmother was Bridget Michaels nee Sciacca. The older generation has passed on. My great uncle Leonard Sciacca was the last one. What makes the family history interesting is supposely my great uncle was to have had the title of baron.(only by name).

My grandmother was a Sciacca from Partanna, Sicily. I traced her family back about 200+ years. Contact me at 973-625-4483.

Hi there. I read your message and would like to know how you traced your family history back 200 years. We are also from Sicily but another area. Please reply and thanks in advance.

The mormon church has photocopied Scilian civil records from 1820 to 1910. They are available to the public through one of their family history libraries. To Start you will need to know roughly the year of birth (exact date is best), the full name of a relative born between 1820 and 1910, and the town they came from. Records are listed chronologically for births, deaths, and marriages for each town so the name of the town is critical. Start with the birth records. If you know the names of the parents of that relative, that would be best to confirm you have found the correct person. Once you believe you located the right person, start working your way back. Italian birth records will list the person, sex, date of birth, when confirmed, the parents and their ages, the father profession, and some other information. The records are in Italian so you will need to have a basic understanding of the language. Figuring out the handwriting is more difficult than the language. The more you look at these records, the more you will understand them so be patient. It is critical not to assume you have found the right person immediately until you have confirmed the data listed against the death and marriage records. Italians are notorious for naming everyone after everybody. There is often more than one person with the same name born in the same year. List every similar name you find and then eliminate using the other records. Also watch out for the dead child problem. When a child died in infancy, Italians oten named the next child after the dead one if it was the same sex. I have also found that the ages listed for the parents in birth records are mostly estimates. It would not be unusual to find that a person said to be 25 in 1875, may have in fact been born up to 5 years sooner or later. Death records can get you back to the early 1700s. A relative found to have died in 1820 at 90 years old was born about 1730. The death records will also indicate the parents of the deceased but without their ages. So the person who died in 1820 at 90, born about 1730, would have had a father likely born betwwen 1680 and 1710, and a mother likely born between 1690 and 1715. You have to estimate. Good luck. Call me if you have questions or get stuck, I'm sure I've been there. 973-625-4483. VB