{"id":887,"date":"2010-05-19T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/05\/19\/tuesday-night-family-ties\/"},"modified":"2010-05-19T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T06:30:00","slug":"tuesday-night-family-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/05\/19\/tuesday-night-family-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night – family ties"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\t\t\t\t\t\t A few weeks ago in New Orleans\u00a0 I managed to find the grave sites of my uncle, my grand parents , my great aunt and uncle and my great grandparents ..\u00a0\u00a0 It was a funny feelign seeing tose stones with my last name..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 but somehow it felt good and connected me to my past…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This\u00a0 evening , Diane’s brother Steve turned us on to a grave site registry called http:\/\/findagrave.com<\/a> . 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\u00a0 .. For example.. Here’s Diane’s grandfather Constantino<\/a>.. he came over from Italy and worked as a brick layer<\/p>\n

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Constantino ‘s first wife Theresa<\/a> had a son Stefano who died at one year <\/p>\n

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Theresa died in 1930 of pnuemonia. <\/p>\n

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Constantino sent back a request to italy for a\u00a0 a new wife to help him
raise his kids.. He found the beautiful Pierina Mariano<\/a> . She wanted to leave italy because two of her suitors had a duel over her.. and one killed hte other !<\/p>\n

Pierina was a beautiful and kind person.. she always used to tell me ‘John. sta’ bon’ .. ‘Be Good !’<\/p>\n

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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 <\/p>\n

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It’s comforting somehow to see these images for me.. it brings me a sense of place and time…<\/p>\n

THat’s it for the day. <\/p>\n

Nite folks, nite Sam
-me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago in New Orleans\u00a0 I managed to find the grave sites of my uncle, my grand parents , my great aunt and uncle and my great grandparents ..\u00a0\u00a0 It was a funny feelign seeing tose stones with my last name..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 but somehow it felt good and connected me to my past…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This\u00a0 … Continue reading Tuesday night – family ties<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}