I had started another blog several years ago at http://myfamilyresearchadventures.blogspot.com/, but when google plus ended some how I messed things up and now it is very difficult for me to get into that blog to post. So I decided to start a new blog that I can get to easier.

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Another Passenger List that lists John E Bionaz as a passenger

I said in a previous post my great-grandfather John Elere Bionaz made several trips back and forth to Italy. This passenger list if for 1912 and gives is naturalization information.

Year: 1912: Arrival: New York, New York: Microfilm Serial T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 1938; Line 1; Page Number:142; Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Accessed 31 October 2015

List of United States Citizens
(For The Immigration Authorities)
S.S. La Savoie sailing from Havre (no date on page)
Line 1 Bionaz, Giovanni, age 46, male, married, Naturalized; Naturalization Information - 4th January 1909, State of PA, Cambria County: Address in United States - Box 116, South Fork PA, Beaverdale

I know the name is not John Elere, but Giovanni is an Italian form of John. The Naturalization date matches the date on his citizenship papers and the papers say John Ellere Bionaz. Also John E Bionaz's family was living in Summerhill Township, Pennsylvania in the 1910 Census.
Beaverdale is a town in the Valley of South Fork in Summerhill Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania. In fact his son John C Bionaz birth record lists the place of birth as South Fork. 

Sunday, October 25, 2015

TRACING IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS 


I enjoy participating in Dear Myrtle's HOA (Hang Outs on Air). Now we are studying Tracing Immigrant Ancestors and the assignment was to basically make a timeline for an ancestor and share it. So I decided to continue with my great-grandfather John E Bionaz. This timeline contains the records that have been located that mentions his immigration. While doing this assignment I was able to find his first arrival into the USA and my sister-in-law Lisa Trimbull Baker was able to find his death certificate.


John E Bionaz Date of Immigration


Name
Age
Event
Event Date
Year of Immigration
Birth Date
Occupation
Foot note
Jean Biona*
24
Passenger List
16 Apr 1894



1
John Bionoz
32
1900 Census
30 Jun 1900
1894
Feb 1868
Coal Miner
2
John There
32
Marriage
6 Nov 1900



3
John Hario*
36
Passenger list
3 Jan 1903


farmer
4
John Ellers Bianaz***

Naturalization Papers
21 Sep 1908
27 Mar 1893
27 Feb 1866

5
John Bionay
42
1910 Census
26 Apr 1910
1895

Coal Miner
6
John E
54
1920 Census
5 Jan 1920
1904

None
7
John Beonza
58
Death Certificate
25 Oct 1924
1894
27 Feb 1866

8

*Biona (or Brona), Jean age 24, arrived 16 Apr 1894 on the ship La Bretagne from the port of La Havre.
** 1903 Passenger List states this is his 3rd time entering USA. The other times he came 1902 and 1894. He is headed to Dunlo PA to return to family, wife Maria Bionaz. He is traveling with Maria and Bernado Boche, who are visiting their brother Placidi Boche in Dunlo, PA.
*** Birth place listed as Brisogne

Footnotes 
  1. Year: 1894; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: M237, 1820-1897; Microfilm Roll: Roll 625; Line: 104; Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.; Original data: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897. Microfilm Publication M237, 675 rolls. NAI: 6256867. Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36. National Archives at Washington, D.C.: Accessed 25 October 2015
  2.  "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M394-NV7 : accessed 26 October 2015), Peter Bush, Adams Township, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet 26A, family 473, line 42, in Family of Peter Bush (Boche). NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,387. Accessed 25 October 2015
  3. Marriage Certificate: 6 November 1900: State of Pennsylvania: Cambria County: Certification of Excerpts from Marriage License Record; 6 November 1900; Marriage License Docket, vol 19, page 375. Groom: John There Bionaz, age 32; Bride: Orpheline Boche, age 16. Copy in possession of Betty-Lu Baker Burton.  
  4. Year: 1903; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 0316; Line: 2; Page Number: 119; Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.: Original data: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897. Microfilm Publication M237, 675 rolls. NAI: 6256867. Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36. National Archives at Washington, D.C..: Accessed 25 October 2015
  5. Petition for Naturalization; United States of America; Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization: Court of Common Pleas in Cambria County, Pennsylvania: 21 September 1908; John Ellers Bionaz, born 27 Feb 1866 in Brisogne, Italy. Copy in possession of Betty-Lu Baker Burton.
  6. Year: 1910; Census Place: Summerhill, Cambria, Pennsylvania; Roll: T624_1325; Page: 18B; Enumeration District: 0155; line 87, Family # 345;  FHL microfilm: 1375338; Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Accessed 25 October 2015. 
  7.  Year: 1920; Census Place: Mahoning, Montour, Pennsylvania; State Hospital for the Insane; Roll: T625_1603; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 58; Image: 536; Line 86; Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Accessed 25 October 2015
  8.    Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates, 1906–1963. Series 11.90 (1,905 cartons).: Certificate # 100316. Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Accessed 25 October 2015

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

John E Bionaz One of his trips

Tracing Immigrant Ancestors Passenger lists


I enjoy participating in Dear Myrtle's HOA (Hang Outs on Air). Now we are studying Tracing Immigrant Ancestors and the assignment was to find a passenger list for an ancestor and share it. So I decided to find and share one of the trips my great-grandfather John E Bionaz made. From what we can tell he made several trips back and forth between the USA and Italy.



(Year: 1903; Arrival: New York, New York;Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957;Microfilm Roll: Roll 0316; Line: 2-4; Page Number: 119: Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.)

Line 2 Bionaz John Hario age 36, white, male, married, farmer, can read and write, Italian, from Brissaque, port New York, traveling to Dunlo Pa returns to family, previous arrivals 1893 and 1902

Line 3 Boche, Maria age 24, white, female, single, can read and write, Italian from Allein, port New York, traveling to Dunlo Pa to see brother.

Line 4 Boche Bernardo age 12, male, single, from Allein, port New York, traveling to Dunlo Pa to see brother.

John E Bionaz married Orpheline Boche in 1900. I believe the brother Maria and Bernardo are visiting is Orpheline's father, Peter Boche.