There are a number of posts below & throughout this blog pertaining to those who have passed away. The posts were created to honor them & to know (a little) more about who they were. However from a research perspective the information is essential for future family members who never knew about them or where they are buried.
A simple headstone can often provide more critical genealogical information than google! You may drive by a cemetery without knowing you're driving right by the grave of someone you know. A grave you can easily see from the road. While most who knew my parents have passed or moved away there are a "few" locally who may drive right by unaware they're doing so including driving by David Cuatt's headstone. My parents are in the second row at All Souls Cemetery on Marble Ave. in Pleasantville NY 10570 Before we detail the google street view if you're driving in to this small cemetery (it's one way) their headstone is in the 2nd row to your left just before you exit. You can easily find them as they are across the street from Irvington St. You can see Irivington St behind them in the 2nd photo below & as fully detailed below the image.
You can easily see the back of their headstone (currently) thanks to google's street view below. This view may change as some do but for the last few years as you "drive online" up or down Marble Avenue you can see their headstone. The easiest way to find it is to search for Irvington St.
Google street view may take you "down," Irvington so you may need to "swing around," facing the other way so you're looking at Marble Ave & the cemetery as shown. Looking straight ahead behind the cemetery fence in the second row you'll see two black or darker headstones. My parents headstone is between the two as shown by the red arrow & as you can clearly see looking through the fence with the orange arrows. When you're on Marble Avenue depending on your direction as shown below you will be just passing or approaching the cemetery exit. There is also a large oak tree as shown below just before/after the exit. The headstone is easily visible as you drive by in your car or online.
We live in a time where we can each "see," one another online or on the phone. I can also travel to Pleasantville to "visit," my parents in less time than it takes to physically drive up n' down Marble Avenue. I have also made my mother's parents Loreto & Maria (Cellucci) Cedrone & my father's mother Grazia (Gentile) Tocci available here including David Cuatt's. David was the son of (my sister) Diane & her husband George Cuatt. Click on each photo to better read the captions. However I noticed in the first photo below the caption is too small to read. I have explained it here: Standing at my parents gravestone walking towards the two identical monuments below the dark arrow (They are identical to the monument seen to the left) continuing past them crossing the pavement you'll approach the back of the Grandparent headstones as shown & explained in the 2nd & 3rd photos below.
You can also easily find the Grandparent headstones driving in (it's one way) as you approach the monuments as shown by the yellow arrow the front of your car will be facing towards facing towards the headstones. You can see my car further down in the photo directly above. David Cuatt was the son of my sister Diane (Tocci) Cuatt. As you look at the cemetery on Marble Avenue there is a side street named Castleton Street
If you're standing on Castelton you can see David's smaller headstone between two larger in the first row as shown below & as you can see Castelton St is directly behind it.
If you're driving in the cemetery David is in the first row to your right just before you exit.
Ahhh! To make the blog more visually appealing I linked to your right photos & documents in slide show albums running all the way down the right side of the page. SEE! THEY SHOULD BE OVER HERE TO YOUR RIGHT
But they're not there are they? Are they gone for good? Well for the very few of you who can still see them & that would definitely be a select few you can just let the slide shows roll or you could go to the online album when clicking on an image or the link itself. Most of you can no longer see them because of the infinite changes to google & web browsers. This is especially true for the majority of you looking at this on a mobile device, an example is Smilebox a site that allows you to create customslide shows. It appears they may now require you to sign in as opposed to just opening upon clicking the link or some slide shows may no longer be active. I have left the few embedded slide shows & they are clearly labeled Smilebox within the various posts because it was easier than reformatting the postwith the many other links featured within. EVERYTHING IS STILL ONLINE. ALL THE PHOTOS/DOCUMENTS ARE LINKED BELOW: I do hope you'll scroll this blog enjoying the many stories & memories from the past: https://sites.google.com/site/loretosfamily/
There are multiple ways to obtain info on relatives who've passed away.
I've used my family as an example.
Some have archived or active obituaries. Never trust a link! I've seen many a link
"disappear," when the need to keep that source active is no longer assumed to be of
importance, or it's been moved to another link making it difficult to locate or sold to another party.
Remember too a nickname is not a name. My father was referred to as Frank, but he
is officially listed as Americo. Although Harry born Americo is only known as Harry
except for his birth certificate. The mystery of how he became Harry died with him.
We are moving towards a paperless society which is dangerous. One major hack & it's "all gone."
If you find info you want to keep at the very least print it.
You may not find many a relative because they died before social security became the
"identifier," for your life's file or because records were not kept. They may be listed on paper in the
town where they were born/died or married.
Donald is buried on the property so he also becomes more invisible on certain sites since he is
not documented through church/town records.
When searching family most stop after finding "relatives," forgetting or not caring about the spouse or kids.
Searching for them better identifies that part of your family, otherwise you have only 1/2 the information.
An example of this is barbara's husband joe: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ctpost/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=170806585
Yeah i know the name sounds awful but it'sthe best looking site with general information about your relatives & your last name.
You'll notice the average lifespan for persons with our last names
is in the mid 70's. Obviously this is skewed as most lifespan data is generated
from older generations who died younger:
I found most of the Cedrone siblings. I search only the sibling not spouses
or children to keep it simple.
Nancy nor Ann were found. I also searched Annunziata & Antoinette.
Clara has not yet been added.
www.findagrave.com This site is made up of volunteers who are often not related to the deceased. They add gravestone info & photos at random I contributed my parent's to this site the rest linked below were added by strangers although Clara & Dan's may have been a Marini family member. I also added a new photo to their link showing the updated stone (After Clara passed away) as well as a better photo of my grandparents headstone which is linked on my parents page My Parents Headstone plusClara & Dan's followed by Harry & Edna. I have no idea why the person who photographed Harry's headstone didn't clean it before doing so. The last link is the Camilli Mausoleum where Nancy & family are interned although only Carmela, Peter & Nancy's first born is listed The other siblings, Vi & Ann are not found online & as of this date Sid (Salvatore) is still "residing," in an urn at home: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmcid=48368560&GRid=179704595&
My Parents Headstone Google
St View: OUTLINED ABOVE IN THE POST SHOWCASING THEIR HEADSTONES EASILY VIEWED FROM MARBLE AVE.
Photos from original negatives most if not all have never before seen. NEVER! No one said a word. How is it possible not one family member seeing these for the first time 70+ years laterhave no reaction? Not a call (Call? Who calls anymore?) Not an email/text. Not a comment on this blog (but that's expected since few visit here) or on facebook. In the end it doesn't matter. Likelife itself it doesn't matter. Life? You have health problems. Do you think most care. I mean really care? NO! Do you know what they DO care about. Traffic. How much traffic there is on the way to your wake. But what's most important? The "luncheon" following your funeral. In the end you're less important than what's for dinner! You pass away. Family/friends mourn for a momentif you're lucky. As services become less traditional with one day funeralsless make the effort to attend. In fact it's believed funerals will become limited to a select few with more "viewing," online. Afteryou're gone life quickly moves on. But unlike years ago where you weren't saturated inundated & self absorbed with your cell phone putting it first & foremost in your life people were more inclined to remember you. Today? You're like apost/tweet/text...quickly buried by the next one In the end I've realized all of this doesn't matter:
If I died todaya few might mournbut don't kid yourself they'll still be thinking... WHERE SHOULD WE GO OUT TO EAT OR WHERE'S THE LUNCHEON AFTERWARD? Think I'm wrong? Think of every person you know who has passed away. Sure if it's a parent or sibling maybe a close friend you might think about them every so often but overall the majority of those gone rarely come to mind. That's reality. Your life like all of the media linked above would eventually fade away. Life goes on (as it should) but what does not go on is the memory of you. As the years pass you become less visible in the minds of those who knew you. Eventuallythosewho knew you best will also pass away & with them goes what little memory there was of you & them. In the end all of this doesn't matter. See ya'
A culmination of images from different families. Unlike the other images
online I did not restore these. They are as the originals look. Most
are of good quality.
I did not identify the photos. After naming every person in everyone of
the 100's upon 100's of photos online I just couldn't do that all over
again.
Some are obvious like this one which KILLS me. Pete Nancy & Alice
(Gotta' love the look on her face): https://goo.gl/photos/4n7MpDX56BKyzbuRA
There are few blurry images (There's nothing I can do about blurry) This is a double image it is not an error in uploading: https://goo.gl/photos/aTGr1XzoArubbuYx7
Some I have no clue as to who they are. In this image my mother is the
young girl on the ground holding another girl in her arms. The rest are
unknown. Although that might be Ann hidden by my mother's arm: https://goo.gl/photos/ne1oumtRJba68pyp8
These are mostly of Hobby St when the families lived there. Pete, Nancy,
kids & Camilli cousins. The Marini's & as for the Cedrones,
it's mostly Clara, Ann & my mother with a few of Vi & a young
Sonny. There are none of Harry that I recall. There are a few that were
taken in Italy like this one of Matty: https://goo.gl/photos/48QSNx2HaxHbqT5r5
Some images repeat. I believe the repeat starts where you see Ann standing next to a STOP sign.
Google street view may take you "down," Irvington so you may need to "swing around," facing the other way so you're looking at Marble Ave & the cemetery as shown. 
