Who Do You Think You Are? Manzelli Family

Perhaps you watch the TV series Who Do You Think You Are?  One episode from 2010 featured Susan Sarandon who was looking for her Italian grandmother in NYC in the 1920s or so.  She was able to trace her Italian immigrants to the cemetery, carefully following the provided information regarding the whereabouts of the grave site only to find there was no monument to mark it.

You may have more in common with Susan Sarandon than you thought!  When she was traipsing around the cemetery, she held a piece of paper in her hand which I recognized right away because it looked just like this one:

Now, I do notice that several cemeteries fall under the umbrella of the Calvary and Allied Cemeteries so it might not be your Calvary Cemetery, but the area looked very much like the site James and I visited in search of the ancestors.  We had the very similar experience of making our way to the grave site only to find that it is not marked (I think it was the Coffarellis and not the Manzellis you see here).  It was something of a disappointment but still rewarding to feel that we had "rescued" some ancestors.

Information such as this from the cemetery is very valuable and goes a long way toward figuring out "Who's Who".  In the case of this listing, I had to separately list each name with my thoughts on who I think they might be.  You may remember this was the trip during which we got ourselves locked in the cemetery and never got to cross the street to find the Isoldis.  We'll be going back (earlier in the day!).