Great news in the mail today!

Received the extract from Cutro, Italy, of my grandfather's birth and it is annotated with his marriage. Two surprises were the date of marriage was a few months off from the date I had and his first and middle names were flipped from what I had. The name on the birth certificate, Antonio Salvatore, was also the name he used on the ship when he came to the United States. However, after coming here, he used Salvatore Antonio and later Samuel Anthony.

Hopefully, this will not cause problems. Some consulates are real strict about things like that and others don't seem to care unless the error involves the last name.

I am still waiting on my grandmother's birth certificate.

Also, I noticed that the CIS is suddenly processing more FOIA requests every day. I suspect, because they have that new pay service coming online later this month, they probably have hired more staff and are training them by having them fill FOIA requests. Instead of about 50 day, they are getting through about 200 a day. There are only 4,310 requests ahead of mine!