TAYLOR STREET ARCHIVES A Chronicle of the Italian-American Experience
Family Tree Application Instructions
The Taylor Street Archives is our opportunity to:
1. Preserve, for posterity, the names and memories of those emigrants (along with their offspring) who found their way, from their Italian origins, to the legendary Taylor Street's "Little Italy." The Archives will be our footprint; it can never be erased.
2. Ensure that our place in the history of Taylor Street's Little Italy, the social laboratory of the Jane Addams' Hull House, is neither usurped nor redefined by others. We are the history of Taylor Street's Little Italy.
Become part of the Taylor Street Archives Family Tree
Your family will be one of many "branches" on the giant Family Tree on the Taylor Street Archives website. Simply print out and complete the
Application by downloading it here:
Download an Application to be listed in the Taylor Street Archives.
Note that this is a PDF file. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view it.
Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded free at this link:
Your family history
You are encouraged to submit the history of your family's pilgrimage to Taylor Street, the port-of-call of Chicago's Italian Americans, beginning with their embarkation from the shores of Southern Italy.
You may, if you choose, also submit stories about your family's Taylor Street experience.
Photographs:
A group photograph(s) of your family is highly recommended to be displayed on your branch of the Taylor Street Archives Family Tree.
Individual photos are welcomed as well. We will scan and return your photographs as quickly as possible.
Special stories and essays
If you or any member of your family would like to submit a special story about Taylor Street-(see index of stories already submitted and posted on the web site for the general reader)-
feel free to contact Vince Romano for assistance.
Contact Information
Please call Vince at
888-724-7392 (toll-free)
or
312 218-4044 (Cell)
Email Vince Romano
Search the archives A search engine will enable visitors to search your family on our website by any of the
following information that you provide, such as: 1) the last name(s) of your immigrant parents;
2) the section of Italy from which each of them had emigrated;
3) the street you/they had lived on;
4) the church you/they had attended;
5) the school(s) you had attended;
6) the clubs or groups to which you belonged;
7) and a host of other criteria associated with your Taylor Street experience.
An Archive search function allows you to look for all references to people, places, etc.
Click here to open a new window in which to search this site. When you are finished, close the window and you will be back here on this web site page.
We invite you to join the Taylor Street Archives. Join us today!
All inquires and correspondence for Taylor Street Archives, please click
here.
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