A few weeks ago in New Orleans  I managed to find the grave sites of my uncle, my grand parents , my great aunt and uncle and my great grandparents ..   It was a funny feelign seeing tose stones with my last name..       but somehow it felt good and connected me to my past…    This  evening , Diane’s brother Steve turned us on to a grave site registry called http://findagrave.com . Steve has been using it to research both sides of his (and Diane’s ) families.. He’s also inputting data on his family as he goes. It’s a little sad looking through these pages, , but it’s cool , too  .. For example.. Here’s Diane’s grandfather Constantino.. he came over from Italy and worked as a brick layer

Constantino ‘s first wife Theresa had a son Stefano who died at one year

Theresa died in 1930 of pnuemonia.

Constantino sent back a request to italy for a  a new wife to help him
raise his kids.. He found the beautiful Pierina Mariano . She wanted to leave italy because two of her suitors had a duel over her.. and one killed hte other !

Pierina was a beautiful and kind person.. she always used to tell me ‘John. sta’ bon’ .. ‘Be Good !’

Steve’s been putting in pictures of many of his family’s grave sites.. he has this one of his daughter Susan.. who did not live even a day

It’s comforting somehow to see these images for me.. it brings me a sense of place and time…

THat’s it for the day.

Nite folks, nite Sam
-me