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Dear all,
Christmas
is coming very soon and this is already our last newsletter for the year
2006!
First of
all, I want to thank those of you who have renewed their membership for
2007, and welcome 17 new members. On 1st December, we count already 52
members for 2007.
The digitalization continues for Procida & Ischia
Early
November, I spent 5 days in Procida and Ischia to carry on with the
digitalization. I have the pleasure to announce today the following good
news:
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The
parish of San Giorgio di TESTACCIO is now completed: this will
allow those of you who have ancestors in BARANO to find some missing
information in this neighboring parish.
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The
parish of San Sebastiano di FORIO is well underway and will
probably be completed next time, at Easters.
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My
visit to the Annunziata of NAPLES has also allowed me to satisfy
3 members by bringing back with me the certificates of their
grand-father who was left in the orphanage.
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In
PROCIDA, several registers of souls (censuses) have been digitalized.
Also, I
had the opportunity to meet again the Mayor of Procida, Gerardo LUBRANO
LAVADERA, regarding our project of digitalizing the archives of the Town of
PROCIDA starting from 1810 until 1899. He gave me a firm agreement,
confirmed since by a letter. The project should start in 2007 as soon as we
will receive the requested financial contribution.
Pascal SCOTTO DI VETTIMO |
2nd Genealogical and Cultural Days on 18 and 19 November in Marseille
Two
fantastic days spent in Marseille with our friends of Corse. It was another
brilliant success for our Association!
I had the
pleasure to welcome 7 new members and assist them in the search of their
first certificate. I also received 13 membership renewals and half of the
books presented were sold!
The queue
at our stand did not empty for the whole week-end and you had to be patient
to reach me and use our computers. Thank you.
I also
want to thank Christiane PADOVANI for a perfect and very well organized
event!
The Volunteers Gallery
You will
find on our Web site a Gallery including most of our Volunteers… They are those who
search and send you the certificates, held the offices, computerize the
registers. It is time to put a face on a name and read about their story!
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For Christmas
Currently
in stock, two Neapolitan movies by Vincenzo MARRA with French
subtitles (only). This could be an opportunity to revise current Italian and
Neapolitan while getting aware of another reality of the life today in the
bay of Naples.
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"Tornando
a casa"
with
Aniello SCOTTO D’ANTUONO (from Procida), set in Pozzuoli, Procida,
Naples and on the sea!
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"Vento
di terra"
with
Vincenzo PACILLI (from the periphery of Naples)
On a
different topic, I wish to inform you of the re-publication in 2006 of a
very nice book regarding the antic and traditional recipes of Procida:
- "La
cucina di Graziella – Le antiche ricette di Procida".
Unfortunately already out of stock after the event in Marseille, but
can be ordered.
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What’s new on the Web site
You’ll
find the following:
- A
press article published in October in the ProcidaOggi about the “Forum
des Associations” in Paris in June 2006.
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The 2006 Volunteers Gallery.
8
new indexes computerized in November are now on line for the following
parishes:
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TESTACCIO, FORIO San Vito, ISCHIA San Vito e Spirito Santo, CAMPAGNANO,
and PROCIDA.
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Please note that the register M07.1 of PROCIDA has been entirely checked!
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You’ll find also new additions in the “various documents” of NORTH
AFRICA.
Preparation of our General Meeting
Here are
some news about your participation at our second General Meeting and its
excursions.
Today, I
have registered 22 members (equivalent to 49 participants),
and 3 promises (another 5 participants).
Early
2007, the next steps will be to organize and book the necessary flights and
send you the final program for the event.
To be
continued…
Reminder: Membership 2007
The 2007
brochure is now available on our Web site and you may renew your membership
right now if you want to, with effect until 31 December 2007.
As last
year, the volunteers in 2006 will be automatically registered as
Benefactor Members in 2007 and will receive a bonus of
certificates proportional to their work during the year 2006: 5
certificates per computerized index + 5 certificates for the other services
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