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A scan of a copy of the Santa Lucia song in Italian, sung at the Santa Lucia Festival in Little Italy, Omaha.

Copy of Ship's Manifest. Ship was the S. S. Barbarossa and is the second photograph. It sailed from Naples in 1900. Salvatore Monaco was a passenger who settled in Omaha, he is Pam Rowland's grandfather. They were both from Carlentini. Third…

Photograph of the inside of Salvatore and Concetta Monaco's store on 9th and Pierce in Little Italy Omaha. They both came over from Carlentini Italy.

Photograph of four people-1 adult, 3 children-all with their names labeled on front and back. Aunt Mary and her sons.

This is a photograph of Concetta and Salvatore Monaco or Monico with their daughter Nettie. They had six children total, one of their other daughters was Pam Rowland's mother. They lived in Little Italy and had a store on 9th and Pierce streets.

Photograph of "Great-nana sister" Nunziata Fancinllo

This is Pam's Nonna's wallet. The family thinks she brought it over from Italy. Contains a bracelet, six silver coins.

Pam's Nonna (Concetta Monaco) gave each grandkids, great-grandkids two dollars from this wallet for the Santa Lucia festival to give to the saint. Her Nonna believed that Santa Lucia saved her Nonno, and this was the way to repay the saint, having…

For a granddaughter who got married, Concetta Monaco tatted them a bedspread. Concetta had ten or twelve granddaughters.