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Re: Visiting Kansas City

by JoelTurner » Sun Jul 09, 2023 1:01 pm

Charles Binaggio’s father Vito lived in Newark in 1910. He was living at 41 Sussex Ave, Newark, NJ.

(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9J3-M2Q)

While I don’t think that Vito was a criminal, this is still interesting considering that the old Newark family had several early members from Gibellina.

By 1902, at the time of his wife’s immigration, he appears to have been living in Hopewell, NJ. This is about 25 minutes away from Trenton, NJ.

(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903 ... cc=1368704)

Re: Visiting Kansas City

by cavita » Wed Nov 16, 2022 6:18 pm

PolackTony wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 9:57 pm
B. wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 9:09 pm Sorry, I left out that I was referring to his father Giuseppe as being born 1859-1864, not John. I only found Italian records for the Giuseppe Lazio born 1857 in Sambuca so not sure that one ever came to the US but I haven't found any other candidates.
Ah ok, I was like huh? Lol.

KC records for Giuseppe Lazzio stated that he arrived in the US around 1891. There was a Giuseppe Lazio who arrived in NYC in 1893, born about 1856, bound for Brooklyn. Could well be the right guy, but the manifest doesn’t give an origin beyond Italy.

There was also a Giuseppe Lazzio born about 1857 in Tèrmini who arrived in Chicago in 1885; there were other Lazzios from Tèrmini in Chicago. Less likely that this is the right guy, I think, as we’ve never seen Termitani as a significant group in KC, and the other guy was headed to Brooklyn.
The Lazzio brothers- Charles, Sam and Joe, all top Rockford LCN associates and frontmen have confounded me as to their heritage, Their parents were Giovanni and Rosa Lazzio but all I could find was the brothers were all born in Louisiana. I have suspected for a time their parents were from Sambuca, which wouldn't be surprising.

Re: Visiting Kansas City

by KCMOb » Wed Nov 16, 2022 3:39 pm

https://gambling-history.com/10-intrigu ... m-termini/

I also had never heard of Sam Termini before. I can't find much information beyond these articles.

Re: Visiting Kansas City

by PolackTony » Wed Nov 16, 2022 11:03 am

KCMOb wrote: Wed Nov 16, 2022 5:18 am Were the Termini brothers from Termini? Half joking.
As in John Termini? Not sure, as I haven’t done any genealogy on them, but there were Terminis in KC from Poggioreale.

Re: Visiting Kansas City

by KCMOb » Wed Nov 16, 2022 5:18 am

Were the Termini brothers from Termini? Half joking.

Re: Visiting Kansas City

by PolackTony » Wed Nov 16, 2022 12:44 am

B. wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 10:44 pm Some of the names in Antiliar's earlier post in this thread do show they had people from Termini, plus the Balestreres from Bagheria.

The Brooklyn one does look like a better match since they lived there.
Ah, you’re right. Small but documented number of guys from the “Triangle”.

Re: Visiting Kansas City

by B. » Tue Nov 15, 2022 10:44 pm

Some of the names in Antiliar's earlier post in this thread do show they had people from Termini, plus the Balestreres from Bagheria.

The Brooklyn one does look like a better match since they lived there.

Re: Visiting Kansas City

by PolackTony » Tue Nov 15, 2022 9:57 pm

B. wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 9:09 pm Sorry, I left out that I was referring to his father Giuseppe as being born 1859-1864, not John. I only found Italian records for the Giuseppe Lazio born 1857 in Sambuca so not sure that one ever came to the US but I haven't found any other candidates.
Ah ok, I was like huh? Lol.

KC records for Giuseppe Lazzio stated that he arrived in the US around 1891. There was a Giuseppe Lazio who arrived in NYC in 1893, born about 1856, bound for Brooklyn. Could well be the right guy, but the manifest doesn’t give an origin beyond Italy.

There was also a Giuseppe Lazzio born about 1857 in Tèrmini who arrived in Chicago in 1885; there were other Lazzios from Tèrmini in Chicago. Less likely that this is the right guy, I think, as we’ve never seen Termitani as a significant group in KC, and the other guy was headed to Brooklyn.

Re: Visiting Kansas City

by B. » Tue Nov 15, 2022 9:09 pm

Sorry, I left out that I was referring to his father Giuseppe as being born 1859-1864, not John. I only found Italian records for the Giuseppe Lazio born 1857 in Sambuca so not sure that one ever came to the US but I haven't found any other candidates.

Re: Visiting Kansas City

by PolackTony » Tue Nov 15, 2022 9:01 pm

B. wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 8:42 pm Has anyone found John Lazia's heritage? Having trouble tracing it. The family used Lazio and Lazzio spellings as well and I've found multiple DOBs for him ranging from 1859-1864. There was a Giuseppe Lazio born in Sambuca in 1857 and that town shows up in Kansas City.
Were did you get that John Lazia was that old? KC papers reported him to have been born in the 1890s in Brooklyn. This matches a John Lazie [sic.] born in 1895 in NYC living in KC. The papers also reported that John’s father was Giuseppe Lazzio, who died in 1931 in KC. Giuseppe Lazzio was born sometime around 1860 and have his wife and John’s mother as Francesca Ligari. Haven’t narrowed the ancestry down yet but does this match the guy from Sambuca that you found?

Re: Visiting Kansas City

by B. » Tue Nov 15, 2022 8:42 pm

Has anyone found John Lazia's heritage? Having trouble tracing it. The family used Lazio and Lazzio spellings as well and I've found multiple DOBs for him ranging from 1859-1864. There was a Giuseppe Lazio born in Sambuca in 1857 and that town shows up in Kansas City.

Re: Visiting Kansas City

by Angelo Santino » Mon May 16, 2022 12:27 am

Antiliar wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 2:12 pm The KC Mafia developed in the North Side on certain streets. It would be interesting to see the proximity of certain members to each other. The important nuclei of KC were the DiGiovannis and the "men in the bakery."

We could also see if proximity reflected crews.
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Re: Visiting Kansas City

by Angelo Santino » Fri May 13, 2022 2:29 pm

Antiliar wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 2:12 pm The KC Mafia developed in the North Side on certain streets. It would be interesting to see the proximity of certain members to each other. The important nuclei of KC were the DiGiovannis and the "men in the bakery."

We could also see if proximity reflected crews.
Sent you the link to the map. I know shit about this city, if you see something that should be noted, Ill listen, the ones in green are from the Bakery and lived real close by.

Re: Visiting Kansas City

by Antiliar » Fri May 13, 2022 2:12 pm

The KC Mafia developed in the North Side on certain streets. It would be interesting to see the proximity of certain members to each other. The important nuclei of KC were the DiGiovannis and the "men in the bakery."

We could also see if proximity reflected crews.

Re: Visiting Kansas City

by PolackTony » Fri May 13, 2022 11:31 am

Chris Christie wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 10:38 am
Chris Christie wrote: Fri May 13, 2022 9:28 am With the exception of Chiappetta who moved/transferred to St Louis, 100% of the KC membership lived in KC. Unlike other Families like CL, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Phila. that were regional groups. Even Chicago appears to have been mostly contained to Chicago/Heights with exceptions.

I wonder if we'll find the same thing for St Louis, Madison, Milwaukee, Rockford and Springfield.

In terms of mapping this, is it even relevant? There are no factions and it seems more interesting where the city was situated rather than where members lived.

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As stated, I want each of these 63 charts to be measurable with one another-
1) Origins (Region, Prov, City)
2) Occupation
3) Addresses (condensed or scattered)

Multi-citied families and single city families have different needs when it comes to mapping. And this KC Family has 3 members today who weren't Sicilian, so the mainland Italy map is redundant compared to a NY Families. It's stuff that I as the designer have to deal with but I'm open to ideas and suggestions.
Great work here. A major part of the picture with Chicago is the different dynamics of distinct Italian settlement communities in the city as well as adjacent suburbs (Melrose Park, the Heights, Gary). I know far less about KC but from what I can tell the North End was pretty much the Italian community, which was mostly Sicilian, so there was probably less context for distinct factions to form. Chicago developed crews that were like factions, almost like subfamilies, as they reflected multiple distinct Italian communities (I see it as almost like a regional family in that way but all contained within one huge metro area). This is just a tentative theory; as I said, I lack the kind of detailed domain knowledge of KC history and social geography to really make that comparison, but that’s how it looks to me.

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