I am trying to locate information on my grandfather Teodoro Ferrara. He disappeared from Allentown Pa in the late 1920's. He left home one day and didn't come back. My family has all kinds of stories about it One was he was running numbers and the government was after him so he left to escape being arrested - Another was he ran off with another woman a divorce who lived near him went to NY and had another family - He left 8 children all agree that he would have gotten a message to them if he could and he also knew that his brother had died also leaving children and he would not have deserted them. My grandmother's family said it was not the first time he had left his wife fighting over his "right" to have a mistress. They also said they always knew where he was but this time he just dropped off the face of the earth. They also said that he was in trouble with the law this time and it was possible that my grandmother turned him in.... (the story was he ran out the back door as the law was coming in the front) My dad says that's nonsense and that he didn't come home one day - My older aunts say it's not nonsense and find it odd that no one (not even his sisters) could find him. His brother's name was Ernesto (his family is in CT) and no one remembers their sister's names for certain - could have been Katrina Maria and Lena or (Angelina). One lived in the Bronx so if he was in NY she would have known. Another rumor was he went back to Italy but if he did that he did not go back to the town he was from because we had letters that reflect their worry over what had become of him. If anyone can shed some light please let me know by e-mailing me at [email protected]