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sabato 5 febbraio 2011

Cartoline dal bisnonno! My ggranpa postcards!


Dopo averle cercate ovunque qualche mese fa, ed avere rinunciato, due giorni fa ho finalmente ritrovato la mia collezione di cartoline.
Quando avevo 15-16 anni ho raccolto cartoline ovunque, e questo mi ha permesso, inconsapevolmente, di essere la custode delle cartoline che il mio bisnonno Bartolomeo, macchinista navale, mandò a sua moglie in più di 10 anni di traversate.
Le cartoline, che furono spedite fra il 1902 e il 1916, arrivano principalmente dai porti del Mediterraneo, ed alcune dal Nord Europa.
Testimoniano l'affetto del mio bisnonno materno per la sua famiglia, soprattutto per la moglie, che adorava.
Sono veramente fiera di questa ri-scoperta, e sto lavorando sulle cartoline per conoscere meglio la famiglia del nonno.

After searching everywhere a few months ago and given up, two days ago I finally found my collection of postcards.
When I was 15-16 years I collected postcards from everywhere, and this allowed me, unconsciously, to be the guardian of the old postcards that my great-grandfather Bartolomeo, a marine engineer, sent his wife in more than 10 years of crossings.
The cards come mainly from the ports of the Mediterranean, and some from Northern Europe.
They testify the affection of my maternal great-grandfather to his family, especially his wife, whom he adored.
I'm really proud of this re-discovery, and I'm working on postcards to learn more about the family of my grandfather.

martedì 27 luglio 2010

A festival of Postcards - Locomotion


I've been away for a while, but here I am!
Postcards always fascinated me, even before my genealogy passion started.
I'm so happy I have some postcards from my ggrandfather, who was an officer on board and sailed in the Mediterranean sea at the beginning of the century, using postcards to keep in contact with the family at home in Italy.
I also have another ggrandfather who travelled at sea in the same period, but no postcards survived from this branch of the family.
What I post today is not from my ggrandfather, but from his son, grandpa Aldo, who went to the US in the '20 just to visit and come back!
This is what he sent home to his father, on Dec 4th, 1925.
It arrived in Genova, Italy on Dec 13th, 1925.