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The Mosconi Family on the day of Matt's graduation, June 8, 2002 Please set your browser window as wide as possible, and if you are using AOL's "own" browser, please turn off compressed graphics. If you let the whole page load before scrolling down, you can enjoy the animated graphics. |
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Welcome to the Mosconi Family Web Site ! Our Home Page I'm glad you stopped by. This site features my family and our interests. Please bookmark this page, and stop back whenever you like! |
This
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updated January 2,
2004...
so, what's
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as we always do...
please come and read an essay about him
Please pray for Fran's brother Tom, his wife Andrea, and their family. Tom, a Major in the Army, was deployed to the military action in Iraq in February 2003, and remains there today. He also served in Saudi Arabia for several months during Operation Desert Storm.
Andrea and Tom, with their son Aidan on a previous birthday. He'll be 7 on June 30, 2004.
. . . it is one of the WORST "weapons of mass destruction".
"Making Contact With Long-lost Relatives in Slovakia" -- updated in Sept. 2002 -- the exciting, most recent chapter of Fran's quest to make contact with her father's branch of the family tree! Click here to go and enjoy the story of how Fran contacted her Kardos relatives in the homeland, after their branches of the family had lost touch with one another for nearly fifty years! A happy reunion after 15 years of family tree hunting!
click here to read about Fran's trip to Slovakia!
Right: Milka Vojnova, Fran, Aunt Borka Malejcikova, Anna Janosova, and Jan Kardos, in the ancestral town of Kristy, Slovakia, near the Ukraine border. Jan is the second cousin of Fran's late father, and is the father of Milka and Anna (she's mayor of Kristy), and the nephew of Borka. PLEASE PRAY WITH US FOR THE INTENTIONS OF OUR FAMILY.
There's a link to an eerie and wonderful old short story at the top of the Poetry page
Upcoming red-letter days:
(go to Page 2 of our site for more on family activities, interests, achievements and news --- and click here to see some more special photos)
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Recalling Dad Kardos fondly,
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a
great
Index to Roman Catholic parish records of Jaklovce, Slovakia -- includes towns of Jaklovce, Margecany, Rolova Huta, and Vel'ky Folkmar -- for my fellow very enthusiastic Slovak-American genealogy buffs! It now lists ALL the last names of those baptized at Jaklovce from 1800 to 1920 (all surnames are now posted; some portions of the index continue through the year 1934), as well the father's name and the mother's maiden name for those baptized there from 1850 onward (1850 through much of 1852 now posted; this feature is under construction and will be slowly, continuously expanded until this data base is posted in full), providing a sort of census index for those towns.
My work on the above data base
has been designated
a "thumbs up" resource
at
The Delphi.com
Czech and Slovak Republic Genealogy Forum web site!
You can also come and see the text of several traditional Catholic
prayers, shown in Slovak, if you
click
here
"Making Contact With Long-lost Relatives in Slovakia" -- the exciting, most recent chapter of Fran's quest to find her father's branch of the family tree! Click here to go and enjoy the story of how Fran contacted her Kardos relatives in the homeland, after their branches of the family has lost touch with one another for nearly fifty years! We've also been able to facilitate a connection vice versa, locating the cousins (residing in the U.S.) of a friend in Slovakia, after those branches of their family had been out of touch for about 50 years! Members of the Slovak branch visited and met cousins in New York in December 2002, and returned to the U.S. in February to meet relatives in Chicago.
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There are some family/regional photos and some original artwork which you might like to see -- click on the above link
Visit Page 2, and learn about Anne Ryba's fascinating book on her Slovak- American ancestry, Humble Beginnings ! Interesting and informative -- a lovely personal and family history! Please share in our privilege as local writer Diane Wilson Flynn graciously and bravely offers her poem about the death of her infant granddaughter
Fran's Gravestone Gallery feature (link below)
was designated Family Tree Magazine's web site of the day for June 21, 2001!
Oscar E. Swan and Sylvia Galova-Lorinc's Beginning Slovak : A Course for the Individual or Classroom Learner (Columbus, OH, 43214 : Slavica Publishers, Inc., P.O. Box 14388; 1990) and the accompanying cassette tapes are helping me get acquainted with my grandparents' native language. If you can locate a copy of Philip Hrobak's out of print classic Slovak Lessons, that is also an excellent text.
Contact me if you are researching the Mosconi, Perdonà and/or Verzini families of Caldiero, San Pietro di Lavagno, or Verona, Italy; or Fulton County, New York after 1914. I have to learn some Italian now (as well as studying my lessons in Slovak, apparently the world's most difficult language) !
Link below to more on our Italian roots.
Click here to see "What We Did On Our Summer Vacation.... "
Fellow avid readers, click here:
This site features what I really enjoy and value: Our five wonderful children (with us, top of page) Our extended family, past and present -- I'm an enthusiastic genealogy buff, having compiled memorabilia, photos and info on our family tree for over sixteen years, and gained research skills, a love of our family heritage, a heightened feeling of commonality between generations, even between the living and the dead, and a sense of delight in learning more about local history and in helping others to research their families. Come visit my genealogy pages -- great photos and anecdotes! Links below.
Proud to have had our web site accepted as a member of GenRing - The LARGEST Genealogy Ring on the 'Net!
It's here! Fran's article, accompanied by a photo tour featuring over one hundred views of beautiful and unusual gravestones, on the role of cemeteries in genealogical research and in our culture -- Click here , then scroll to the middle of that page, for an index to the monuments shown on the virtual tour (original "path" and veterans' tour), in case there's an ancestor you're looking for listed there. N.B. Some refurbishing is taking place on these features at this time -- if you experience any difficulty, please return in a few weeks when "repairs" have been finalized -- thanks......Fran We welcome the recognition given by Family Tree Magazine in declaring this feature its Site Of the Day for June 21, 2001
A second general-interest path will soon be added to the gravestone tour, so you can enjoy viewing over two dozen additional interesting and lovely monuments without your visit's being too time-consuming -- bookmark the site, make your way through one tour, then return to view another when time permits. Soon you'll be able to Click here to see the new photos! These images and the accompanying text can teach you how to find clues to your family tree in cemeteries, and gives basic examples of how to use what you find to direct your search for further info effectively. (what's the poetry feature over on the cemeteries' part of the site all about?)
Come visit Old Days: glimpses of the generations gone before us:
THEY SAILED FROM ITALY: OUR ITALIAN ANCESTORS OUR SLOVAK ANCESTORS, FROM AUSTRIA-HUNGARY TO PENNSYLVANIA -- make your way through several pages on this story -- join the over 3000 people who have enjoyed and learned from this feature over the past three years! Now with photos of early days in the new homeland (early 20th century Lackawanna County, PA), and the story of the family's immigration; an article about the ancestral villages of Margecany and Jaklovce, Slovakia; and how we found out so much about this branch, including the hard-won victory of locating Fran's father's paternal ancestors , the Kardos family. Several improvements and expansions have been added to this section -- including recommended reading, new maps, an old-country parish roster and prayers in Slovak.
Important update -- please continue reading the feature through to "Reunited..." -- with one another's help, two families, each with branches in Slovakia and in the U.S., locate long-lost relatives after decades of having lost contact!! Come and see the photo family tree: Fran's paternal grandparents and their children
Our most meaningful inheritances from our parents and other forebears: our Roman Catholic faith, a broad and sound education, and valuing being a person of good character
"Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ." (St. Jerome) "It is not enough to discover Christ -- you must bring Him to others! The world today is one great mission land, even in countries of long-standing Christian tradition." (Pope John Paul II)
Please say a prayer today, or do another kind and unselfish act, to apologize to God for our society's broadening the slaughter of the innocent, with the upcoming release for use of the abortion-causing drug RU-486. Is it safe? At least one death is expected and PLANNED each time it is prescribed and taken! Dr. Laura Schlessinger -- what an asset to the moral climate of our country! Gotta catch this lady's gutsy, no-punches-pulled nationwide radio program, answering callers' questions of right and wrong. Whether you agree with most or little of what she has to say, I think it's wonderful that she's making her listeners think in more depth about morality and ethics, and promoting both discussion of and taking sound action on such matters. If you are new to Dr. Laura, you can find out on which station her program is broadcast in your area at her web site, linked at her name, above.
Reading ! Go to a list of my best-loved contemporary authors, as well as the works I've read in recent weeks
My other activities as a Jill-of-all-trades:
my work as an R.N. employed part-time; I now work serving patients in their homes;
volunteering on occasion at our children's excellent schools, Saint Rose of Lima School and Bishop Grimes Junior-Senior High School
Contributing to the content of one of our county's genealogy-related web sites, and producing an indexed virtual tour of the highlights of our area's cemeteries.
By any chance, do cemeteries interest you, too? Go to Page 2 and scroll down to the section about this topic. You may be a taphophile, too, and not even realize it.
With thanks to cartoonist John McPherson -- has the Internet spread too darn far? :
I
enjoy...Browsin' around eBay!
. . . play time with family members or on my own. Games of skill, trivia and the like -- Dominic's favorite: The Addams Family Reunion board game, Game of the Year, Ultra Dice (Yahtzee for the computer), Tetris Plus, MegaMind, Sequence, and Jeopardy, for me! Watercolor painting. Doing crafts with the children and reading to them. Cross-stitch. Sewing, to make clothing. Chuckling and groaning over examples of humorously bad grammar and usage and misspellings we find in the media, á là Jay Leno's "Headlines" segment. Swimming. Languages, in particular learning a little Slovak. . . . Fran's New Year's resolutions: keep my car neater; spend a quiet half-hour in prayer each day. . . . taking snapshots, learning how to use my digital camera, and, on the rare occasions there's time, letter writing and creative writing, and compiling a journal of memoirs on my own and the family's history . . . serving as family appointment secretary, transportation and social activities coordinator, and pet-sitter, while their masters are at school, to a cat and a ball python.
Please feel free to e-mail Fran at fmosconi@baldcom.net. I'd enjoy corresponding about any of the above topics. Go to my web site's Page 2 , The Family Room (family news, interests and achievements; genealogy overview; basic info about Jim's and Fran's ancestry); to Page 3, The Library (recommended reading material & computer software); Old Days: some glimpses of the generations gone before us (many pages of anecdotes about and photos of our family, past and some present; our immigrant ancestors, and their families), or join the over 11,000 people in four years who have visited The Gravestone Gallery: Cemetery Curiosities and Tombstone Tributes ---Then, Today and Tomorrow: an article by Fran, her web-site pride and joy, accompanied by a photo tour with three paths from which to choose, on the role of cemeteries in genealogical research and in our culture. (N.B. Some refurbishing is taking place on this feature at this time -- if you experience any difficulty, please return in a while when "repairs" have been finalized -- thanks......Fran) . . . as you wish We live not too far from the city of Syracuse, the county seat for Onondaga County, and one of the U.S.'s snowiest cities. Most contemporary family photos, most cemetery photos, and the watercolor paintings at this site taken/painted and © by Frances Kardos Mosconi. All rights reserved.
Grand opening of my site: March 16, 1999
Hope to see you here again soon! Thanks for
being one of the
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Image of Christ copyright 1996 Thomas Scharbach. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
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THE
QUEST REALIZED: THE AMAZING STORY OF HOW WE FOUND THE ELUSIVE KARDOS
ANCESTORS. God's help, a re-discovered cast-off photo of
a Slovak man thought to have been dead eighty-seven years,
and friendships made on the Internet among Fran, a new woman
acquaintance a thousand miles away and twenty years her senior, and
a young Slovak citizen 6000 miles away, blazed the fascinating trail
beyond the genealogical dead-end of Fran's own maiden-name line --
If
you are interested in reading a Scripture passage from the Holy Mass of the
day, along with sound, understandable commentary, the "Daily Word For Reflection"
is a free service intended primarily to allow personal reflection on the
Word of God. Today's reading is available at
Another excellent
site to visit, if you are interested in the artistic and historical side
of cemeteries: the photographic and narrative work of
