Genealogy

Introduction

My name is Giulio, I started with genealogy when I was very young, in the past 1960s. My first search was about my mother lineage. She was born in a little village in Tuscany and we went there each Summer time.

I remember first I collected all the available information speaking with my family, than I went to the Parish Church. The Priest was a bit old but very kind; I studied Latin back then and he showed me all the Church books for the "Battesimi", "Matrimoni" and "Morti". That was the first time I was able to view those old pages full of names, handwritten -sometime really incomprehensible-, full of information and history. The Archive was not very tidy, many documents were scattered, so I helped the Priest in ordering all the documents.

Every day I discovered something new, the Marriage permission from the "Curia Vescovile or from "Vaticano", the very important "Stato delle Anime" which show all the families composition through the Centuries ....

Since 1960s I have examined many Archives all over Italy for my family search; now my family tree is very big, but it is still like a "never-ending work". There is always something to add, some data to update.

In the Winter of 1996 I started with genealogy on the Net and I made a lot of searches in order to help some virtual friends living all over the world.

Genealogical research about the Salemme family.

I have now been researching my family tree for over 30 years; and before me my grandfather had been doing the same.

We succeded in outlining the genealogical tree of the Salemme family from the end of the 14th century up to nowadays. Obviously, I have not been able to define all the collateral branches.

My most recent "success story" is about Giacomo Salemme.

Till the end of 1800 my family lived in Gaeta, near Roma Italy. In the second half of 1800 a Giacomo Salemme (born in 1846) went to America. Un until recently I assumed this meant the United States, and the probable place sounded like "Tampick". It was only after I managed to track down a great-grandson of his, in London, that I discovered the whole story.

Salemme Giacomo, son of Antonio, born at Borgo di Gaeta on 31 September 1846, was married to Filomena (not Filippa as we first thought) Colozzi and went to America. To the continent we call America, not to the United States of America.

They settled in Tampico (not Tampick), a very important port during the XIX century and early XX in the Republic of México. One of their daughters, Dolores Salemme, born in Tampico married to Santiago Oñate, originally from Michoacán, México, and had several sons and one daughter. One of his sons, Santiago Oñate Salemme, was born in Tampico in 1918. He married with Clara Laborde, in México City, and died there in 1968. Amongst the documents where the information was extracted, was an old stained document, a "Patente di Capitano di Gran Cabottagio" issued to him by the Marina Mercantile Italiana (Italian Navy), issued at Roma on 24 November 1871.

Apart from the documented information, this descendent was also able to tell me an unconfirmed story that ran in the family. According to this story the Salemme were sailors in Gaeta. Apparently they navigated ships build or administer by a person of the name "Matarazzo", also from Gaeta (I know that among those ships were the Maria Teresa, the Tigre, the Aurora, the Teresina, the Santa Filomena and the St. Pasquale; I understand that in the Museo Navale di Genoa there are some pictures of those ships).

At a certain time near to the end of the XIX century, the story goes, a big storm sank several ships commanded by members of the Salemme and Colozzi families, and the wifes of those who survived, made them promise that they would abandon the sea. In accordance to other version, they were financially broke and had to leave Italy. Giacomo went to Tampico, where he lived until his death without seen again the shores of Italy. He did not abandon completly the sea, because he became capitan of the port of Tampico and was in charge of introducing big ships into port.

This is what I have learnt so far, and I am still waiting for a cousin's call...

If you know anyone interested in genealogical research about Salemme, will you please, give me their address or give them mine (slmgcs46c28@usa.net)?

I have all the Salemme's addresses in USA and some with e-mail addresses too.

Searching:Salemme - Coschi - Acciaccarelli - Mencaraglia Badolisani - Foti - De Ritis

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