Continuing my ongoing theme of Italian immigration to Argentina I’ve come across a posting at the Olive Tree Genealogy blog about an individual who has posted the passenger list of the ship Federico that sailed from Genova, Italy to Buenos Aires in March 1961.
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I’ll be interested in hearing personal accounts of anyone who immigrated by ship from Italy to Buenos Aires. There must be a lot of interesting stories among those who made the journey.
March 13th, 2007 at 6:58 am
Hi,
I consider your blog one of the best about Buenos Aires and Argentine Literature. I follow it with great interest since August 2005 and encourage you to keep on with it.
On this specific entry, I was surprised to see italian inmigrants arriving as late as 1961 when I knew from the stats that this inmigration halted around 1955, with many of the latests to arrive being relatives (usually old women) of long established inmigrants, and some even returning to Europe in the sixties and seventies. Reading the passengers list I found that there are no italian names (especially first names), mostly are Spanish names and I guess that they were Argentines coming back home after a tour to Europe. Some others seem Germans that embarked in Genoa. Defitively this is not a list of inmigrants.
Ciao!
Regards,
Luis Cella
grandson of Italians inmigrants, currently living in Vienna.
March 13th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Hi Luis,
Thanks for your note and your examination of the 1961 passenger list. I must admit that I didn’t look at that list very closely. I appreciate all the info.
March 14th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
[...] list of the ship Federico that sailed from Genova, Italy to Buenos Aires in March 1961, Jeff Barry asks his readers for personal accounts of anyone who immigrated by ship from Italy to Buenos Aires. Luis Cella, the [...]
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Hi, My name is Juan Terranova, I´m a journalist from Buenos Aires and porteño “to the last hair of mi head”. My grangfather arrived here from San Marco Argentano, Calabria, Italia in 1947, after fighted in the war. My father was only two years old. I have a lot of inmigrants stories on my family. Someone in my blogs. The blog is great. Regards. Juan,-
March 23rd, 2007 at 8:19 pm
My grant-grantfather came by ship grom Italy. He was ebanist (do furniture of wood) and I remember him with almost 100 years with his cigarretes.
May 28th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Many of the Cella’s who came to Argentina and America in the late 1800’s early 1900’s came from the foothills in region north of Chevari, Liguria. In particular from a farming community called “Villa Cella”. My grandfather Pietro and grand Uncle Louis A. Cella were early arrivals and settled in Rhode Island, Connecticutt and New York.
Louis went into business, my grandfather farmed tobacco in the Conecticutt river valley before WW1. The children of those Cella’s are spread across America today.
June 9th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Has anyone visted the museo de immigracion in BA? is it worth a visit? My great-grandfather arrived in BA from Italy in 1901. I am seeking to learn more about factors that influenced Italian emmigrants to choose BA over Ellis Island, a shorter, presumably cheaper trip.
June 9th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
I visited the immigration museum a couple of years. Not much there but it’s worth a visit if you’re in BA and interested in immigration topics. There is a database in the museum of families that passed through the “immigration hotel”.
As for why BA over New York, one story I heard is that it simply depended upon what tickets were available at the time that one wanted to leave Italy. It would be an interesting topic to research.
September 18th, 2007 at 7:23 am
I would like to know where I could find information on my grandfather who immigrated to Argentina from Italy around 1935 to 1939. Where would I go to obtain this information?
March 20th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I too have been struggling with research. I would like to have access to the National census 1927 of Argentina where hopefully could find the name of my grandfather.
Any suggestions? apart from going to Argentina….
Does a list of passengers to Buenos Aires from Genova for 1933-1936 exists? and where?
Please help if you can, I am getting pretty desperate.
Thanks
March 20th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Hi Fernanda,
You might want to check out this site http://www.cemla.com/busqueda.html that has a database of arrivals at the port of Buenos Aires between 1882-1930. You can search by last name but it doesn’t seem to return much info online. But perhaps the site has further contact info.
Also, the site for the Museo de la Inmigración is worth exploring.
Good luck!
June 30th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Hello Gianmario,
I am Myra and also looking for relatives in Argentina. My grandmother’s cousins went to Argentina, family name: consolini
They lived near Lago di garda (provincia di Verona). I am wondering if we might be talking about the same consolini. If so, I think i’ve got a lot of information. I am going to argentina in november and due to that i’m trying to find relatives. My grandmother’s name is Angela Pericolosi
Greetz
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:02 am
estou a procura de meu bisavô fortunato zanardo que veio da itália em 1900. não sei o nome do navio,sei qeu depois ele foi para piracicaba, chegou com 19 anos
grata
April 7th, 2009 at 1:33 am
Does anybody know
FOMIATTI, Carla & Ester
b. 13 June 1924
b. 15 February 1946
Origin: Sondrio, Italy
Departed from: Genoa
Arrived: 23 February 1952
Aboard: Oceania
First settled in: Perth, W.A.
Australia.
Thank you from West Chester Pennsylvania USA