05/12/05
In 1988, after the birth of my daughter, I became interested in my family history. I needed to rediscover it so I could pass it on. Now twenty years later I have discovered quite a lot. Some good, some bad but all of it interesting. At first, I started out with my family. But after hitting a giant wall called the Atlantic Ocean, I started researching my wife's side of the family. I come from Italian and Irish immigrants and only go back 1 to 4 generations in America. My wife's family have been in the America's since the 1600's. Here are the surnames that I am researching.

    BOVA
    CHRISTIAN
    GRIFFIN
    LASCOLA
    LASLIE (LESLIE, LASLY)
    MCNAMARA
    NUGENT
    O'KEEFE
    PURCELL
    ST LAWRENCE (ST LAURENT)
    TIBBETTS (TIPPETT, TIBBITTS)

I have uploaded by family tree / history files to the following sites on the Internet. Is it appropriate to upload it to more than one spot? I don't know. But hopefully more people will run across it and make more family connections.

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    Bova Family on Family Tree Maker
    Bova Family on Termini Imerese site

The Surname page lists the major and minor surnames we are researching. Contain links to the pages built for the major surnames.

The To America pages are lists of all the Bova's and LaScola's that immigrated to America between 1880 and 1899.

The Source Records page contain links to a page for each person that I have documented the source records. Some of the source records are on other sites on the internet and some are on my site.

I have created a springboard search page which is hard to describe. It can be used to search different genealogical databases all from a single page. Check it out.

Are you having problems Effectively Searching the web for genealogy information? This page will tell you how to do it more effectively.

Are you spending lots of time searches the web. The Doubling your searches page gives a tip on how to double your search without doubling the time.

On my Links, page I tried to only include links that would be relevant to a person who came here instead of general genealogy links. It includes links to other pages for the same surname and family locations as mine.

On my Getting Started page, where to go find out how to get started in genealogy. But if you have been doing research for a while and new to the Internet, this page will tell you all the things to do with genealogy on the Internet.

So now that you have search the internet and found all the information that is out there for the people you are searching for, there are probably people that you didn't find any information on. These people that are hard to find information on are commonly referred to as "brick walls" because you can't get pass them to other ancestors. But the internet is constantly changing. How do you know that one of your distant cousins didn't just posted on the internet the information that you were looking for? So every once in a while, you will need to go back and search the internet again. The Brick Walls page will help you keep track of these Brick Walls.

If you are wondering if you have seen everything there is to see at this site, you can go to the Site Map to see all the pages along with a description of them and a map on how to get there.

Have you been here before? Wondering what I have changed since the last time you were been here? I have marked things that have changed or have been added with a little graphic. Placing the cursor over the little graphic will display the date it was changed or added. The little graphic is removed after 6 months. You can go to the Site Changes page to see a list of all the changes and when they were made.

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