Thanks for sharing, man. You know, of course, how screwed up some of these family trees can be, but these are very interesting relations being asserted there (obviously), so it's worth really trying to dig into them.Antiliar wrote: ↑Sat Jul 02, 2022 1:57 pm There's a family tree at Ancestry (Anselmo Family Tree) that's interesting if any of it is correct.
It begins with Francesco (Frank) Cali, 26 March 1965, New York-13 March 2019, Staten Island, born to:
Augusto Cesare Cali and Agata Scimeca
Augusto Cesare Cali was born in 1916 in Palermo, Palermo, Sicilia (New York public records show that Cesare Augusto Cali was born in March, 1936, and lived at 7306 18th Ave, Brooklyn, the same address as Agata S. Cali) and died in 2012.
His parents were Michele Cali (1873-1958) and Angelica (Angela) Bonventre (1888-1964)
Angelica Bonventre was born around 1888 in Castellammare del Golfo, the daughter of Gaspare Bonventre and Rosa Domingo. She married a Giuseppe DiSalvo Sr (1887-1931), and after her first husband died married Cali. (News sources confirm that Frank Cali was the "great-nephew of Bonanno mobsters Vito Bonventre and Giovanni Bonventre.")
It's possible that Rosa Domingo was related to Giuseppe Domingo, the father of Sebastiano "Buster from Chicago" Domingo. If true, it's another circuitous connection to Chicago, not just with Buster, but his older brother Tony who may have been part of the Joe Aiello faction.
I would have to review the Bonventre genealogy on the family tree since I have doubts about its accuracy. It has the Vito Bonventre who led the "Good Killers" and was killed in 1930 as her older brother. However, it could be correct, I just haven't verified it. According to Vito Bonventre's coroner's report his parents were Gaspare Bonventre and Rosa Domingo, so his parentage is correct.
Agata Scimena Cali, according to her passenger manifest, was born 16 Feb 1938 in Ciminna and gave her U.S. address as 235 Elizabeth Street. Newsday noted that Rosario Morale of 235 Elizabeth Street was one of twelve Bonanno members and associates arrested in 1966.
I haven't been looking into Frank Cali's family for long, but the only documents I've personally been able to confirm for him thus far are the Bensonhurst property record you note, and his 1961 arrival in NYC (as Cesare Cali). Agata arrived in NYC first, on a 1961/02/11 Alitalia flight from Rome; as you note, she listed her US address as 235 Elizabeth (Palermo address was on Via Antonio Borzì, near the old center of Palermo Città). Cesare arrived 1961/06/13, on the ship SS Independence from Palermo; he did not give an address in Italy or a birth place/year and listed Agata as living at 262 Elizabeth St.
I don't see any records thus far for a Michele Calì who married a Bonventre woman. Now, there is a Palermo marriage record for a Michele Calì and a Vincenza Di Gregorio (hmmm) in 1892. His parents were given as Giuseppe Calì and Vita Viola, while hers were Nicolò Di Gregorio and Concetta Gebbia (no birth year for either partner). I don't know these Castellammaresi genealogies the way that some of you guys do, so I'll leave it up to someone else to weigh in on that. Given that Cesare Calì was born in 1936, however, even if this was his dad , presumably the woman couldn't have been Cesare's mother; the father would have had to have remarried later.
A couple of family trees on Ancestry claim that the Michele Calì (they give the same parents as in the marriage document above) that I note here was the father of "Augusto Cesare Calì" (it should be Cesare Augusto, i.e., "Caesar Augustus") born in 1916 in Palermo. There are no documents confirming any of this that I've found, and even if Cesare was born in 1916, then Angela Bonventre probably wasn't his mother, as her husband Giuseppe Di Salvo died in 1931. That timeline would be consistent with a 1936 birth, however, Angela would've been in her late 40s when Cesare was born. Possible that Michele Calì and Angela Bonventre met in NYC after their prior spouses died and then returned to Sicily, where Cesare was later born. Who knows. These family trees also have Äugusto Cesare Calì" as having died in 2012; did Frank Cali's dad die in that year?
Fully plausible, IMO, that they could've been related, and that both families would've had relatives who emigrated to Chicago.B. wrote: ↑Sat Jul 02, 2022 2:31 pm A very reputable source says Sal Catalano is also a relative of Frank Cali's mother. We know Catalano attended Cali's mother's funeral which was held in Ciminna some years back, as there was an article about it. The source himself has a marital connection with the Catalanos and was very close to them.
