My family is so important to me, as I know it is to many others, so I am happy to help others as others have helped me. It is also fun and rewarding to help people discover the roots of their family, especially when I know I have given them the tools to do their own research because finding it yourself is the best part of all! AK
It's the words of thanks and amazement that I receive when someone has had a question answered, an ancestor discovered, a connection made or a document found and knowing my books and research bring the same tears and
joy to others that I have felt.
Below are some examples:
Thank you, Angie, for getting back to me with so much helpful information, and so quickly! Thanks, too, for the tips on the text. I love the way the stories in your book flow right along with the historical references. It's clear that you are and always were very close to the families you write about. That, too, is key, having a heart connection to the people you are remembering, whether
you actually knew them or not.
Thanks again, Angie. AK
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I can't thank you enough for the links you just sent to your previous two books! I previewed them both and will get to the library as soon as I can for the real things (only because the previewed text is so small and I want to savor everything!). I am so impressed by your work--what you write about our obligations (that is, we "chosen ones") to future generations by recording family histories, and how you incorporate stories, records, memorabilia, and photographs to make it all come alive. You have already gotten me thinking about how to better use some of the many family records that have been left to me. AK
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Tears and joy!
"I laughed and I cried."
"It is difficult to read through tears!"
"I have to admit I cried through most of it."
"The dedication page makes me cry because
it is so filled with love."
"The gift of this labor of love."
"What a gift this book is!"
DPG
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I'm impressed by your incredible work on this family history, compiled in such a comprehensive publication. I managed to open everything. I'll be thinking about printing it out so I can have a hard copy and show it to my loved ones. Thank you so much. I've had this app installed since we met. It's been very useful. Sending warm greetings to all my family in the USA. Hugs to this most wonderful senior. May God keep her in good health and care for her as long as possible. KK
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This is awesome!! Congratulations for finishing it! And THANK YOU for taking it on! Can’t wait for mine to arrive, I just put my order in.
Love, SPO
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Hi Angie, Thanks you for collecting these memories and creating the Possemato family history. We are so lucky you decided to marry into this crazy family!! KPR
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This is so awesome Angie. Thank you so much for all your research and for sharing with us. GH
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Dear Angie,
Thank you for the magnificent research and book you composed. The manner in which you have re- enlisted us as family after generations and miles of separation is a gift to us all. May blessings from heaven be abundant to you for your much effort,
(and if not now, I'll bet it will be so when we get there!) Much love, RT
I’m flabbergasted !!! And to think that I had this info in my possession all these years; of course, it would have helped if I could read Italian and decipher handwriting!!! Thank you for sharing all of this, I am still processing it all.
Angie, you are such an inspiration !! RPS
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Hello Angela
I can't thank you enough for all of the descendants documents and other documents on your web site. I have used them extensively.
As an example, some of them, the Italian death certificate for my father's mother, and and ship manifests, completely conflicted with stories me and my cousins were told about the why and when of her death.
You were right when you told me official documents are the most trusted sources.
Thanks again, FP
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Oh my goodness, thank you for this! Adelaide Ucci has been a puzzle I have been trying to figure out for a while now! Her birthplace was listed as France on several Census records and American documents, but it didn't make sense to me as her birth date would have been post-Napoleon. Thanks also for the local church records, too. Even if I had been at the church and found them myself, I never would have looked at those names and figured out that was my grandfather! The many versions of names for one person has indeed been a struggle for me in finding records. L.
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Hi Angie! You've done a great job, and it's very well done. I admire your perseverance in pursuing your goal. I recognize some of the photos and the people. Big hugs to all of you as Christmas approaches. JA
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Hi! I got the book today! Can’t wait to delve into it! What an amazing job. Thank you from the family a million times over. DPP.
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Hi Angela,
I am enjoying your wonderful book so very much! My brother, and cousins ordered theirs, and I just ordered another one and having it sent to our cousin in Alaska! I would love more information on my grandmother Gabriella's ancestors. I have never seen a picture of grandpa Cosimo other than what I sent you.. The picture of the 3 brothers on pg 111, is Cosimo! What a gift this book is, the great family pictures and all the faces I remember. I laughed and I cried. Those Easter Sunday hats and our new dresses. Great memories. Can't thank you enough for sharing your curiosity with the rest of us.
Love and Hugs, V
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CONGRATULATIONS...your dad is smiling somewhere, not to mention your mom! JD
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We received the DeSerio book. It's amazing. Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for all your hard work! CGS
Hi Angie,
OMG, that certainly answered a lot of questions we all had. Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into finding this information! You're amazing and so glad we have someone in our family like you. Thank you so much! Mom and Dad would have loved all this information. JND
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I want to thank you for the information that you provided, it’s a generation more than I could locate. I can’t express how grateful I am for this information that you have provided.
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You strike again! I did NOT know that my father was baptized Severio. I've heard over the years (after he passed away) comments that this was supposed to be his name but it ended up Samuel. On our recent trip a surviving cousin of my father kept referring to him as Severio, as did some of her children, all adults. It was always a bit of a mystery to me and you have solved it. What great timing! Moreover, I love the name Severio. And our first, and to date only, grandchild is named Sam, after my dad. We can add this to the story when we tell him about his namesake and great-grandfather. BV
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Good evening, Angela! I just wanted to thank you again for the unbelievably, detailed, well put together on our family history. I just ordered my fifth book of the Possemato family’s genealogy and history. I hope you and Harvey are well! And I hope we can have a visit one of these days, in person. Much love to the two of you, HP.
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Love it! Love it! Love it!
Where to start…….well, I’m still reading and re-reading every sentence and piece you have gathered for this beautiful book!! To see it all together is a bit overwhelming and in some ways evokes a feeling of loss while at the same time a feeling of celebration of the people and places that are so dear to us. Your writing flows so freely and your humorous approach to our legacy makes it all so real; there is always humor in the Italian way as we so well know. Got to say also that I love the way you seamlessly enjoined your family into it all. The picture itself tells a beautiful story!!
I’ve given a copy to each of my children and my brother and told as many of those cousins that don’t use the Internet about it.Thank you for your devotion and creative superpower, you have given each one of us a wonderful gift!! Ti abbraccio forte (yes, I looked that up!) RPS.
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Just got done printing out and rereading what you’ve uncovered, wow! Good to know, I guess? Thanks again for shedding light on this for me. BG
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