Thank you for responding...I will be emailing you on this exciting news as well.
This is my first attempt at finding family. My Grandmother has recently moved to a retirement home, and has the beginning signs of Alzheimers. She never knew much about her father's family, as he rarely spoke about his past. The names I gave, were names I found in my fathers baby book, that Grandma had saved all these years. It is likely, as you say, that Mary DeFrank is Mary DeFranco.
All I was ever told about my great Grandfather Joseph Sbrocchi, was that he moved to New Glascow, Nova Scotia, from the United States..it was said that he was from the Chicago area. I'm not sure if there is more fancy than fact in this though, as he arrived in Nova Scotia during the end of the Al Capone era.
My grandmother keeps talking about how her father was going to take her home to Italy, until she got mixed up with my grandfather, and married instead. In pursuing this conversation with Grandma about my family history, I learned that she never knew her own aunts and uncles, if there were any, or her grandparents. And I'd like to know if there is a family out there for me and my sister as well. We are the last of our family here, and I am so excited to have gotten lucky enough to trace our family here! My Grandmother will be so happy too!
Thank you for responding, Phil...again. I will send an email!