POINT National Conference

5:00 - 10:00 pm Milcreek Room
Registration Sign-in and Get Acquainted Get-Together at Tony Caputo's Italian Deli

8:00 - 8:30 am Wasatch 1&2 Welcome - Mike Madeo (#2263) and Tom Militello (#1)

8:30 - 10:00 am
Wasatch 1&2 Keynote Speaker
Sharon DeBartolo Carmack (#109) - The Immigrant Experience-From Steerage to Ellis Island

10:15 - 11:30 am
Wasatch 4 Lou Alfano (#2114) - Immigrant Passenger Lists
Wasatch 3 Ugo Perego - Molecular Genealogy - A New Approach To Finding Your Ancestors
FHL B-120 Ruth Merriman - Okay, Now What Do I Do?

11:45 - 12:45 pm
Wasatch 1&2 Box Lunch
Guest Speaker - Ruth Merriman - Guided Research at the Family History Library

1:00 - 2:15 pm
Wasatch 4 June DeLalio (#1181) - Italian State Archives: When and Why You Need Them
Wasatch 3 Alan Mann - Using The Internet To Do Genealogical Research, Part 1
FHL Robert Porcaro (#4673) - Guided Research

2:30 - 3:45 pm
Wasatch 4 Trafford Cole (#1176) - Researching Italian Documents In Italy
Wasatch 3 Alan Mann - Using The Internet To Do Genealogical Research, Part 2
FHL Ruth Merriman - Guided Research

4:00 - 5:15 pm
Wasatch 4 Robert Porcaro (#4673) - Sicilian Bridges To The Past-Italian Census Records
Wasatch 3 Sharon DeBartolo Carmack (#109) - From Yawner To Page Turner-Writing A Compelling Family History
FHL Paola Manfredi (#4281) - Guided Research

5:25 - 6:20 pm
Wasatch 3&4 Jenny Tonks (#4205) - Correspondence With Italy: Research's Best Kept Secret
Millcreek Room Ruth Merriman - Okay, Now What Do I Do? [Repeat]
FHL Keith Rose - Guided Research

6:30 - 8:30 pm Wasatch 1&2 Buffet Banquet
Dancers from the University of Utah Character Dance Ensemble - La Tarantella
Nicole Larsen, Italian Community Center of Salt Lake City - Introduction of the Guest of Honor
Guest Of Honor - Dr. Giovanni Maschero, Vice Consul of Italy, Salt Lake City, Utah
Tom Militello (#1) - Roll Call of the Chapters
Guest Speaker - Vincent D'Orazio (#3418) - What's In A Name
Tom Militello (#1) - Presentation of Distinguished Service Award to Tony Lascio (#1051) in absentia
Mike Madeo (#2263) - Introduction of the members of the POINT National Conference - 2002 Organizing Committee
Tom Militello (#1) - Presentation to Chapter #24 and the PNC - 2002 Organizing Committee

8:30 - ? pm
Wasatch 1&2 Regional and Organizational Gatherings
Milcreek Room PIP Chapter Leaders Meeting

8:00 - 9:15 am
Wasatch 4 Daniel Niemiec (#2304) - Italian Genealogical Research in Chicago
Wasatch 3 Mary Hill - Organizing Your Paper Files in a Computer Day & Age, Part 1
FHL Trafford Cole (#1176) - Guided Research

9:30 - 10:45 am
Wasatch 4 Sharon DeBartolo Carmack (#109) - Flesh On The Bones: Putting Your Ancestor In Historical Perspective
Wasatch 3 Mary Hill - Organizing Your Paper Files in a Computer Day & Age, Part 2
FHL Suzanne Russo (#4211) - Guided Research

11:00 - 12:15 pm
Wasatch 4 Paola Manfredi (#4281) - State Archives in Naples
Wasatch 3 Keith Rose - Where is My Town? - Boundaries And How They Affect Research
FHL Robert Porcaro (#4673) - Guided Research

12:30 - 1:45 pm
Wasatch 1&2 Buffet Luncheon
Guest Speaker - Trafford Cole (#1176) - The Five Most Common Mistakes in Italian Research

2:00 - 3:15 pm
Wasatch 4 June DeLalio (#1181) - A Genealogical Treasure: Italian Marriage Records
Wasatch 3 Suzanne Russo (#4211) - Locating/Using Family History Websites For Italian Research
FHL Ruth Merriman - Guided Research

3:30 - 4:30 pm
Wasatch 3&4 Research Panel

Lou Alfano (#2114)
Sharon Carmack (#109)
Trafford Cole (#1176)
June DeLalio (#1181)
Paola Manfredi (#4281)
Daniel Niemiec (#2304)
Robert Porcaro (#4673)
Keith Rose
Suzanne Russo (#4211)

FHL Jacqui Suker (#4454) - Guided Research

4:30 - 5:30 pm
Wasatch 3&4 Closing
Announcement Regarding Next Conference
Passing of the Organizing Committee Chairmanship
FROM: Mike Madeo (#2263), POINTers In Person Chapter #24-Salt Lake City
TO: Danny Zangara (#1612), POINTers In Person Chapter #14-Kansas City
Drawings for Door Prizes

Phyllis Militello

Memories

The Weather

Sitting at an outdoor table at Tony Caputo's Deli on Thursday evening. It is the middle of October in Salt Lake City, and we are in shirt sleeves. Leaving the beautiful Wyndham Hotel, our conference headquarters, on Sunday morning, the bell boy tells us it was 27 degrees when he came to work.

Roll Call of the Chapters

Of our 20 currently active PIP chapters, 16 had one or more chapter members at the conference. Only Chapters #5, #17, #23 and #25, among active chapters, had no one attend. There were 10 chapters represented at the meeting for PIP chapter leaders and representatives plus Frank Fouchi (#1769), who was there on behalf of inactive Chapter # 4 - New Orleans. Frank is hoping to reactivate the chapter with plans then to present a proposal to host POINT National Conference - 2006. At least two other chapters, perhaps three, also expressed interest in hosting in 2006.

Records

The conference set a record for registered attendees with 164. Including spouses and guests, there were over 200 at the banquet.

The registered attendees with the lowest POINT Numbers were Linda Simone York (#16), Laura DeBartolo Heidekrueger (#67) and Joan M. Brazzale (#78), who was easily identified with her POINT Number on the back of her shirt. Great idea, Joan!

The registered attendee with the highest POINT Number (and thus, our newest POINTer to attend) was Rosemarie Golden (#4733).

By our best count, there were attendees from 27 states. California had the most attendees with 56; Texas and Utah were tied for second with 17 each and Illinois had 12.

The Gifts

The thoughtful gifts of photographs, books, mementoes, and the bottle of his famous olives from Joe Geraci (#3190). Thank you all very, very much. We are very grateful.

The Photographs

Our son-in-law, Mike Rogers, came down from Seattle with our daughter, De-Anne and their two girls, for the express purpose of photographing the conference for POINTers. Mike told us right after the 2000 conference that he was disappointed there were not more photos in POINTers and that he wanted to do it. He has already told us he wants to do the same in Kansas City. We are hoping to have some of the photographs up on the POINT Website, including many that we could not find room for in this issue. We don't know when that will be, but there will be a notice in POINTers.

Thank You

A final thank you to Mike Madeo and the POINT National Conference - 2002 Organizing Committee for their hard work in producing such a spectacular event and to all those who made it a success - the speakers, the vendors and exhibitors, those who made donations of money and door prizes, and most especially, those who attended. We hope we will see you all again in Kansas City.

POINT National Conference - 2004 in Kansas City, Missouri

Tom Militello (#1):

Las Vegas, Nevada, 1998

When we arrived in Las Vegas in October, 1998, for the First POINT National Conference, no one knew if there would be a second conference. Chuck Panico (#1848), at that time the leader of PIP Chapter #11 - Southern Nevada, had produced the conference all by himself, and it was obvious that the burden of organizing such an undertaking could not ever again be done by one person. At the opening session on Monday morning, and again at the banquet that evening, I asked for some PIP chapter to come forward to volunteer to host the next one. The next morning, Lin Brinkman (#1388), the leader of PIP Chapter #10 - Texas, saw me and beckoned me to her with a crooked finger. She said that the members of her chapter who were at the conference had met the night before and had decided to host POINT National Conference - 2000.

Austin, Texas, 2000

Mike Madeo (#2263) had organized PIP Chapter #24 - Salt Lake City for the express purpose of hosting POINT National Conference - 2002, and came to Austin with an organizing committee and a plan for the conference basically in place. The work of that committee and the results of that plan eventuated in the success of the conference two years later.

Salt Lake City, Utah, 2002

We came to Salt Lake City much as we had to Las Vegas, with no chapter yet having stepped forward to host a 2004 conference. The difference was that we now had a track record of holding three conferences and there was some urgency that we not leave Salt Lake without a commitment to have a conference in 2004. At the opening session Friday morning, I again asked for a chapter to volunteer. After the banquet Friday evening, there was a meeting of 11 chapter leaders and representatives who discussed various proposals and possibilities, but after two hours, we did not have a host chapter.

Saturday morning, Mike Madeo called me out of a lecture and beckoned me to him with a crooked finger, exactly as Lin had done four years earlier. He asked me how I felt about having POINT National Conference - 2004 in Kansas City. It seems that after the meeting the previous evening, Danny Zangara (#1612), the leader of Chapter #14 - Kansas City, had gone back to his room and called some of his chapter members. On the spot, they set up a conference call among themselves and then gave Danny the go-ahead to volunteer the chapter to act as host for 2004.

Kansas City, Missouri, 2004

When I made the announcement at the closing ceremonies in Salt Lake City that Chapter #14 would be the host in 2004 and that the 2004 conference would be in Kansas City, the room erupted in cheers and all gave Danny a standing ovation. Mike Madeo then took the microphone and sang the line, "We're going to Kaannn-sas City, Kansas City, here we come."

During the door prize drawings, the room was abuzz over the idea of everyone meeting again in two years in Missouri.

Flavia Acceta
Corine Agliata
1772 Audrey Ann (Mascitti) Allen
1772 Robert Glenn Allen
Nina Anderson
3783 Charlene B. Anzalone
4441 Patricia Ellen Asta
1354 Patricia A. (Pat) Beavers
3063 Betty Beck
4161 Miriam Bell
3189 Frank S. Belluomini
3165 Adele J. (Pasquini) Bennett
585 Noella Benvenuti
585 Roger R. Benvenuti
4321 Janice M. Bertolini
Deab Bingham
Karen Bingham
Merle Bogart
Mimi Torchia Boothby
4317 Nancy J. Boudreau
4317 Richard Boudreau
4349 Marilyn Perrone Bowen
78 Joan M. Brazzale
1171 Maria E. (Fields) Brower
4326 Leila D. Calamari
4042 Helen Cancellier
4042 Philip D. Cancellier
2500 Norma Cannata
Marie Capezzuto
1377 Sylvia Carson
2209 Gwen Cascio
1023 Rafael (Bob) Chase Ianziti
4309 Linda Cheney
1793 Joanne B. (Farnocchia) Coffin
Shirley W. Coffman
Dianna Davis
Julie Davis
Patty Davis
1634 Bruce W. Day
3404 Robert A. De Lorenzo
3624 Rosanne De Frank
4468 Tania De John
2367 Antoinette M. (Trivisonno) De Leo
2367 Bernie De Leo
4477 Anthony P. De Lio
1371 Diane M. De Marco
4160 Alexander De Volpi
3753 Jean E. (Giunta) Denning
3753 Vaughn Denning
3001 Angela C. Di Berardino
4401 Florence M. Di Julio
1812 Rose Marie (Ulizzi) Ducato
Rife Palmieri Elkins
Kerry Farnsworth
1769 Frank Edgar Fouchi
3702 Vickie D. Galeazzi
1978 Concetta (Connie) Gallina
Charlie Gardner
3190 Joseph S. Geraci
1463 Anthony P. Ghezzo
1463 Joanne Ghezzo
4124 Mary Ann Gioia
4690 Jerome B. Goggiel
4733 Rosemarie R. Golden
Stacie Gomm
3654 Maryanne S. Graham
3003 Anthony L. Grillo
3003 Carolee Grillo
199 Verda R. Hansberry
Cherie Harmon
3901 Janet M. Harms
67 Laura DeBartolo Heidekrueger
1653 Marilyn (Maniscalco) Henley
4183 Kathryn P. (Kay) Hill
2921 Patricia A. Howley
3852 Norma F. (Busalocchi) Hurley
2827 Sara C. Jacobs
Baerbei Johnson
4322 Judy G. Johnson
3235 Earl Jones
Mary Jura
654 Rose Capodici Kapranos
Tayna Keller
2040 Carol D. Kwolek
2537 Antoinette M. (Toni) La Maritate
3956 Harold Bud Lang
Joseph Laraic
4728 Lynn M. Le Cropane
4495 Frank T. Leder
Marie E. Leonard
1231 Gayle Licari
Cyndi Loper
Geno Ludwig
Glayds Luongo
2808 Jo Mac Diarmid
3626 Sharon L. Marconi
4255 Constance A. Marcucci
Susan C. Martin
2614 Joseph A. Mastrangelo
2614 Marie Mastrangelo
3743 Nancy J. Mc Namara
2828 Marie V. Melchiori
2828 Robert Melchiori
4469 Patricia L. Merk
4699 Mariann Michaels
1 Thomas Edward Militello
1 Phyllis Militello
Jean Moore
3235 Linda Jean Moran
4731 Sandra J. Nagy
2261 Cathy C. Nielsen
3250 John Notaro
3250 Fran Notaro
591 Richard Onofrio
4284 RoseMarie Teresa Sicoli -Ostler
3713 Pat Oxley
Toni Paddock
3638 Maria A. Persuitte
3322 Connie J. Piazza
277 Elissa Scalise Powell
2074 Caterine A. Premont
1290 Nancy G. Pruter
2837 James M. Ragusa
1204 Richard Rath
1204 Theresa (Taffy) Vita Rath
3771 Jeanne Roberts
De-Anne (Militello) Rogers
Michael Rogers
210 Lawrence J. (Larry) Romagnino
1427 Frank Romano
3719 Kathleen V. Rosella
Ted Rousses
2476 Helen Ruatti
Anne Ruisi
4250 Louis Scopel
4583 Lorraine Shea
4583 John Shea
Gloria P. Silva
2089 Lois G. Smith
663 Catherine R. (Cay) Spicocchi
663 Ken Spicocchi
3175 Leita Spoto
3175 William Spoto
Ginger Staral
Glayds Staral
1111 Dolores (Sparti) Taylor
George Terry
102 Louise Parolini Tesoriere
2356 Patricia Therkelson
1242 Alice Tiso
2610 Patti Tolone
3367 Jeanne Torre
1564 Josie (Plescia) Vaughn
Donald A. (Don) Villoni
Linda Williams
241 Virginia D. Williams
3974 Daniel E. (Dan) Wright
Rose Ann (Lombardi) Wright
16 Linda Simone York
4679 Stephen Yung
4679 Lois Yung
1612 Danny M. Zangara
437 Ronald J. Zurawski