Comments on: Geracitano Family Research Begins http://familyhistorians.org/geracitano/geracitano-family-research-begins/ a place to connect and share Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:31:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: rriggi http://familyhistorians.org/geracitano/geracitano-family-research-begins/#comment-2 rriggi Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:52:59 +0000 http://familyhistorians.org/geracitano/geracitano-family-research-begins/#comment-2 Quite by accident I came across your information on Geracitano while searching online. I am a Geracitano descendant. My grandfather was Frank Geracitano from Caulonia, Reggio Calabria. My grandmother was Maria Mittica Geracitano, also of Caulonia. Both immigrated to the US in the early 1900s. I visited the village of Caulonia two years ago and met my cousin, a Mittica, and toured the village. The only limitation to my learning volumes of my family history was that I do not speak Italian, and everyone in the village spoke no English. There are actually two Caulonia's. One is Caulonia by the sea, and the other is simply Caulonia. The village is not far from the sea, and on the side of a small mountain with the remains of a castle just above the village. It was a wonderful trip, and the hospitality of the locals was wonderful. For years I have tried to construct my family tree on my mothers side and this is a far as I get, again, limited by my of Italian language skills. Quite by accident I came across your information on Geracitano while searching online. I am a Geracitano descendant. My grandfather was Frank Geracitano from Caulonia, Reggio Calabria. My grandmother was Maria Mittica Geracitano, also of Caulonia. Both immigrated to the US in the early 1900s. I visited the village of Caulonia two years ago and met my cousin, a Mittica, and toured the village. The only limitation to my learning volumes of my family history was that I do not speak Italian, and everyone in the village spoke no English. There are actually two Caulonia’s. One is Caulonia by the sea, and the other is simply Caulonia. The village is not far from the sea, and on the side of a small mountain with the remains of a castle just above the village. It was a wonderful trip, and the hospitality of the locals was wonderful. For years I have tried to construct my family tree on my mothers side and this is a far as I get, again, limited by my of Italian language skills.

]]> By: Cauloniesa http://familyhistorians.org/geracitano/geracitano-family-research-begins/#comment-5 Cauloniesa Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:24:45 +0000 http://familyhistorians.org/geracitano/geracitano-family-research-begins/#comment-5 Hi RRiggi: you are correct. Caulonia Superiore is the ancient town - located on a fortress like hill and then there is Caulonia Marina - right near the sea - they are part of the same town/city - caulonia. Caulonia is the name of the town and then there are fractions that belong to that town; i.e. Ursini, Foca, San Nicola (Fractions are like suburbs, mini villages) They all go under Caulonia. It can be difficult getting around the set up. Caulonia is located in the province of Reggio Calabria. All birth certificates will show Castelvetere pre 1862 or caulonia - since that is where everyone had to go to register. But you will find that they probably came from nearby villages. Ursini is a farming community about 9km out of Caulonia - names from that area: Maiolo, finis, panetta, Foca is located closer to Caulonia Marina and some names from that community were, Ritorto, salerno, Fazzolari, deblasio..... When researching Gericitano also consider Iericitano - my tree shows both names and they came from the same family. There was an antonio that went to the US with his mother he was separated from his wife....not sure if he remarried in the US - this is a skeleton in the closet and I am interested in more research - he was born around 1701? Descendants in Italy still have written correspondance from the US Hi

RRiggi: you are correct. Caulonia Superiore is the ancient town - located on a fortress like hill and then there is Caulonia Marina - right near the sea - they are part of the same town/city - caulonia. Caulonia is the name of the town and then there are fractions that belong to that town; i.e. Ursini, Foca, San Nicola (Fractions are like suburbs, mini villages) They all go under Caulonia. It can be difficult getting around the set up. Caulonia is located in the province of Reggio Calabria.
All birth certificates will show Castelvetere pre 1862 or caulonia - since that is where everyone had to go to register. But you will find that they probably came from nearby villages. Ursini is a farming community about 9km out of Caulonia - names from that area: Maiolo, finis, panetta,
Foca is located closer to Caulonia Marina and some names from that community were, Ritorto, salerno, Fazzolari, deblasio…..
When researching Gericitano also consider Iericitano - my tree shows both names and they came from the same family.

There was an antonio that went to the US with his mother he was separated from his wife….not sure if he remarried in the US - this is a skeleton in the closet and I am interested in more research - he was born around 1701? Descendants in Italy still have written correspondance from the US

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