Monte Etna, an active volcano laying at the heart of Sicily,
dominates the island's landscape and culture. Cities and villages
sprung up along its coastline where rocky slopes met the
Mediterranean Sea, and most people who lived there eked out
hardscrabble lives as farmers or fishermen. By the early twentieth
century, while King Victor Emmanuel III ruled Italy, young men
often found work as sailors in the king's navy as an alternative.
Two of them - Eligio Monte (later Monti) an orphan from Catania and
Carmelo Gianino from Augusta - followed that path and eventually
emigrated from the island, first to Boston's West End, then to the
Hill in St. Louis, Missouri. Their story affords the opportunity to
examine in detail the broad historical roots of Sicilian immigrants
as they acclimated to the New World and their descendants' slow but
steady assimilation and loss of Old World ethnic identity.
Biographies of the children of Eligio Monti and Sebastiana
(Gianino) Monti, some of the first generation born on U.S. soil
between 1908 and 1928, complete this saga of two Sicilian immigrant
families traveling and taking root in new American soil.
Photographs, maps, documents, and a Proper Name Index will aid the
genealogical researcher in finding their own roots. Also included
is a descendants chart with numerous surnames, including: Baynes,
Beishir, Biffignani, Combrevis, Dolan, Egler, Farabee, Frattini,
Furham, Gegg, Gianino, Hall, Lebeque, Monte, Monti, Palmer,
Renfrow, Schmitt, Virga, Viviano, Willis, and others.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
