ANGELO F. CONIGLIO

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writing

fiction

the lady of the wheel
(la ruotaia)
foundlings and miners,
despair and hope

non-fiction

forever young
50 plus senior news
iac newsletter.
siamo qui
l'italo americano
monthly genealogy columns
in print media

fonderia usa
iac newsletter
times of sicily
ilRegno
on-line genealogy columns

per niente magazine
sicilian stories

foundlings
an on-line essay
with translation of
original records

Serradifalco ~ Approach from the north

Serradifalco: The door to my father's birthplace ~ Via Migliore numero dieci

Serradifalco: La Serra del Falcone: 'Mountain of the Hawk'

Map of the Kingdom of Sicily

Cefalú beach at sunset

by Angelo f. coniglio:

The Lady of the Wheel
(La Ruotaia)
A story of loss, perseverance, and family strength in Sicily in the late 1800s.

* 50 Plus Senior News (Lancaster, PA)*
Forever Young (Buffalo)

* Siamo Qui (Albany)
* Italian American Community Newsletter (Rochester).
* L'Italo Americano (West Coast)
Monthly columns in print: researching census, immigration, birth,
marriage and death records of the ancestors of our immigrant forebears.

The Coniglio Family website
A website devoted to the descendants and ancestors of Gaetano and
Rosa Alessi Coniglio of Serradifalco, Caltanissetta, Sicilia.

The American Football League website

American Football League teams, players, fans,
memorabilia, books, and Hall of Fame.

A n o n - l i n e e s s a y a b o u t a b a n d o n e d
S i c i l i a n a n d I t a l i a n c h i l d r e n i n t h e 1 8 0 0 s
With images of original records in Italian,
transcribed and translated into English.

Sicilian Stories

sicilian links

la bedda sicilia
a history of Sicily
from 10,000 BC

south of rome
west of ellis island
sicilian-american blog

arba sicula
sicilian-english prose and poetry

best of sicily
the land and people of sicily

times of sicily
by sicilians for sicilians

fonderia usa
to develop a better understanding
of the italian-american experience

the sicilian language
the first romance language

Mussomeli: Castello Manfredonico

Mussomeli: Ceiling of the Church of Our Lady of Miracles

Agrigento: Valley of the Temples

Angelo F. Coniglio is a first-generation Sicilian-American, youngest of nine children born to parents from Serradifalco (Serradifarcu), Provincia Caltanissetta, Sicilia. He is a civil engineering graduate of the University of Buffalo and a retired civil engineer and engineering professor. After retiring from practice and teaching, he began researching his ancestry. That interest led him to volunteer as a librarian at a local Mormon FamilySearch Center, where he managed over five hundred Mormon microfilms of Italian/Sicilian records, on permanent loan to the center.

In addition to his own and his Sicilian-American wife’s ancestry, which he has traced back eight and ten generations, as far back as the 1600’s, he has helped hundreds of families develop their family trees. He is skilled at locating and translating civil birth, marriage and death records in original Italian, and church sacramental records in Latin, using several on-line record archives. He has had his DNA tested and is experienced in evaluating DNA results. He established the Genealogy Station at Buffalo’s Italian Cultural Center, where he and staff offer free genealogy research services.

He is deeply interested in the phenomenon of sanctioned anonymous abandonment of illegitimate children, and has documented numerous foundlings’ records and created a web page devoted to abandoned children, with numerous case studies

Coniglio has written a book inspired by his research; a fictional account of the life of a foundling girl in 1800s Sicily, her 'carusu' (mine-boy) brother, and their struggling parents. The book, The Lady of the Wheel, may be ordered at http://bit.ly/SicilianStory. An interview with Coniglio by author Veronica Di Grigoli is on her blog at http://bit.ly/SicilianFoundlingsBlog

See Coniglio's family website at http://bit.ly/FamigliaConiglio. For examples of original Sicilian birth, baptism, marriage and death records in Italian and Latin, transcribed and translated, go to http://bit.ly/HeritagePath and follow the links. Coniglio lectures on Sicilian/Italian genealogy. To see a decription of his presentations, click below.

He also has several YouTube videos, including: a history of 'Italians and Sicilians in Buffalo '; an interview on Bob Sorrentino's 'Italian Roots and Genealogy'; and a narration of his essay 'My Father's Birth'.