by Marianne Perry | Sep 24, 2013 | My Reflections
Peonies represent good fortune and happy marriages. [nz_sep top=”20″ bottom=”20″ width=”” height=”” type=”solid” color=”#e0e0e0″ align=”left” /] What meaning best defines the word...
by Marianne Perry | Sep 17, 2013 | Genealogy
This is Nana Caterina and Nonno Pietro on September 15, 1915, their wedding day. Nana was 26 and this is probably what she looked like when she left Italy. [nz_sep top=”20″ bottom=”20″ width=”” height=””...
by Marianne Perry | Sep 10, 2013 | The Inheritance
A fondamenta is a street alongside a canal in Venice and restaurants are often located there. [nz_sep top=”20″ bottom=”20″ width=”” height=”” type=”solid” color=”#e0e0e0″ align=”left”...
by Marianne Perry | Sep 6, 2013 | Event
Discovering family stories has fuelled Marianne Perry’s longstanding interest in genealogical research. Her paternal grandparents emigrated from Calabria, southern Italy in the early 1900’s, travelled across the Atlantic Ocean by steamship, landed at Ellis Island, New...
by Marianne Perry | Sep 3, 2013 | My Reflections
A fruit market in Florence. [nz_sep top=”20″ bottom=”20″ width=”” height=”” type=”solid” color=”#e0e0e0″ align=”left” /] Memories are powerful. Many are rooted in experiences that bind...
