"BC" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > First Posting: > > Benedetto Papa - aka - Benjamin Papas > Born: January 25, 1880 > Place of Birth: Believed to be Sant'Angelo, Calabria; however, there > are at least three villages named Sant'Angelo in Calabria, and we > don't know which one was his birthplace. (message snipped) Italy phone directory at http://www.infobel.com/italy has 31 PAPAS listings, 24 of them with associated name of GIACOLETTO, none of them in any of the Sant'Angelo locations, but some might be close by if you look at postal codes. Have you tried searching for US immigration information? Joe in Texas