On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:12:57 -0500, RobertB wrote: > In article > "tombates@city-net.com" wrote: > >> My Italian grandfather immigrated to the United States around 1900 >> and subsequently died in a coal mine accident in Pennsylvania. >> Might the Italian embassy or consulate(s) have records of the >> accident as he was an Italian citizen > > Do you know where in PA? My grandfather worked in the mines in PA > when he arrived in the US. That would have been around 1916 I > believe. He worked there for about three years. (Sorry about piggy backing here, I don't have the original post.) I would have though newspapers would have been a good bet for details of a mining accident. I wouldn't have expected the Italian embassy or consulate would have had any information except maybe a death registration, if it was notified to them. -- http://home.comcast.net/~webact1/Collingridge/

In article <477a5193$0$47115$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net>, Charani <SGBNOSPAM@ mail2genes.invalid> writes: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:12:57 -0500, RobertB wrote: > >> In article >> "tombates@city-net.com" wrote: >> >>> My Italian grandfather immigrated to the United States around 1900 >>> and subsequently died in a coal mine accident in Pennsylvania. >>> Might the Italian embassy or consulate(s) have records of the >>> accident as he was an Italian citizen >> >> Do you know where in PA? My grandfather worked in the mines in PA >> when he arrived in the US. That would have been around 1916 I >> believe. He worked there for about three years. > > (Sorry about piggy backing here, I don't have the original post.) > > I would have though newspapers would have been a good bet for details > of a mining accident. > > I wouldn't have expected the Italian embassy or consulate would have > had any information except maybe a death registration, if it was > notified to them. I'm sure there must be other areas, but my wife's grandfather went to Pittston, in Luzerne County, PA, as a miner. There was a large Italian community there at the time, mostly miners. Might be worth checking the local obits, news reports. Bob -- Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas ----- Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it. -- Henry Ford