Hi Karen, Have you sent away for death certificates yet? The death certificates should give the names of the parents of Frederick and Anna, but the information is not always accurate, since the person giving the information for the death certificate may not have known the parents names themselves. You can also check newspapers on microfilm at your local library to see if an obituary was published. If you don't live in RI, your local library can order microfilms of RI newspapers through interlibrary loan. In the 1910 U. S. Census for Bristol, E.D. 4, page 83B, Frederico and Anna or Annie were living on what looks like Bradford St. in Bristol, No. 170. Frederico was 30 years old, born in Italy. Anna or Annie's age is not clear--it is most likely 30, but could be 31 or 32. Anna was also born in Italy. They had been married for 4 years. This was a first marriage for each. Anna had had two children and both were then living. The children were both born in RI, Frances, age 3 and Bartholomew, age 1 and 1/2. Frederico said he immigrated in 1900 and had filed his papers for citizenship. Anna had immigrated in 1903. Frederico was a shoemaker in a rubber mill. They had 4 boarders living with them who were also shoemakers in the rubber mill. So, if you haven't searched these papers down already, you can also locate their marriage certificate--since they were married about 1905 or 1906--and Frederico's citizenship papers. This link gives information about tracking down vital records in RI. http://vitalrec.com/ri.html Also, if you can figure out the church, you can obtain marriage information from the church records. The Ellis Island website has the following record for an Anna Teodosio [www.ellisisland.org] First Name: Anna Last Name: Teodosio Ethnicity: Italian, South Last Place of Residence: Scafat Date of Arrival: Jun 29, 1903 Age at Arrival: 17y Gender: F Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Sicilian Prince Port of Departure: Naples Manifest Line Number: 0014 The age doesn't line up, but the year of immigration matches (although Anna may not have given the correct year to the census taker). In the manifest Anna said she was a dressmaker. She said she was going to Wilmington, Delaware to the home of an uncle, Vincenzo Abati or Abate. Does that mean anything to you? She was traveling with Tommaso Caliendo, age 33, married, a baker, who was going to the same location. Vincenzo was also his uncle. Tommaso was also from Scafat or Scafati. [There are actually two manifest entries for Anna--the other one says that the person was an aunt, Vincenza Abati or Abate, and that Vincenza was Tommaso's cousin.] If this is the right Anna, it would be a good piece of information, because, in order to track down ancestors in Italy, you need to know the town, and it's not easy to find out the town, as most records here in the U.S. will just put down Italy--no town or city. In the Ellis Island records there is (1) First Name: Fiderico Last Name: Cavaliera Ethnicity: Italian Last Place of Residence: Naccra, Italy Date of Arrival: Dec 21, 1900 Age at Arrival: 57y (?) Gender: M Marital Status: M Ship of Travel: Furst Bismarck Port of Departure: Napoli, Italy Manifest Line Number: 0018 Again, the year of immigration is right, but the age doesn't line up. The transcriber questioned the age, but on the manifest it is definitely not 17--the writer had a weird way of making a 5--so I think 57 is probably right and this is not your Frederico. Also, in Ellis Island (2) First Name: Federico Last Name: Cavaliere Ethnicity: Italian Last Place of Residence: Napoli Date of Arrival: Aug 12, 1902 Age at Arrival: 22y Gender: M Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Hohenzollern Port of Departure: Naples Manifest Line Number: 0029 This is a better possibility -- arrival is off by a couple of years but the age is right. If you can get his citizenship papers, the file should contain the ship he arrived on and the date. This Federico was bound for NY and his relative was Pasquale Mansione?? (unclear) at what may be 2nd Ave. in NY. I could not decipher Federico's occupation, but it doesn't look like shoemaker. The next entry isn't your guy, because he's married--but the interesting thing is he is from Scafati (3) First Name: Federico Last Name: Cavallaro Ethnicity: Italian Last Place of Residence: Scafati Date of Arrival: Aug 18, 1902 Age at Arrival: 23y Gender: M Marital Status: M Ship of Travel: Roma Port of Departure: Naples Manifest Line Number: 0006 He's the right age, though, and the interesting thing is that he was headed for Providence, RI. He was a "taylor." [Could the record saying he was married be an error?] There were quite a few passengers from Scafati on this ship, including two more Cavallaros--Carmine, age 50??, married, a baker; and Filomena, age 15, a domestic. They were both headed to New Haven, CT, he to join his wife and sons, she to her cousin, Raffaele Cavallaro--all living on Hill St. in New Haven. There is also a Federico Cavalloro who came from "Scafali" in 1898--not your guy, but Scafati seems to have been crawling with Federico Cavalleros! (4) He was also headed to New Haven, to his brother. First Name: Federico Last Name: Cavalloro Ethnicity: Italian Last Place of Residence: Scafali Date of Arrival: Mar 30, 1898 Age at Arrival: 49y Gender: M Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Ems Port of Departure: Naples Manifest Line Number: 0024 It's always a challenge to track people down on ship's manifests, because of all the spelling variations. You may be able to come up with more possibilities. The following site is helpful http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/intro.html Once you're into searching for records in Italy, a very helpful book is Italian Genealogical Records: How to Use Italian Civil, Ecclesiastical, & Other Records in Family History Research by Trafford Cole. Good luck, Karen! Margaret At 10:08 PM 2/6/2006, you wrote: >Hi anyone that can help or lead me in the direction to find out >information on Frederick Cavallaro (b) 1878 died in 1947 Bristol RI >married Anna Teodosia (b) 1876 died in Bristol Rhode Island not sure of >the date. These are my Great Grandparents and I am trying to gain more >information on their ancestors. I should have started my family tree >sooner because now most of the living relatives that could have helped me >have all passed. Any help would be great. >Thanks so much >Karen Cavallaro-Harris > > >==== RIGENWEB Mailing List ==== >Washington County RIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~riwashin/ >Scans of Rhode Island Maps are at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/maps/