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Eugene De Rosa

Hello, Fred, and thank you for your note on my talk page. Information on your uncle is hard to find, but if you look at the footnotes you'll see that one source relied on is you, writing here, so I was expecting to hear from you sooner or later. (Strictly speaking, your blog is not what Wikipedia calls a reliable source, mainly because it has no editorial supervision, but so far no one has objected to its being used.)

1. "One fact that you included was that he arrived at Ellis Island in 1894." If you look again you'll see I say he was born in 1894 (that's from your blog, "He was born in the Calabria region of Italy in 1894") and that "while he was still a small child" he arrived in the US through Ellis Island. I said that because it was the nearest I could get. To add your date of 1897 we should need to quote a source. Actually, at the back of my mind I have an idea that the Ellis Island records are all online somewhere, you may like to look into that.
2. "Also, there were six children: Eugene (1889), Jerry (1891), Felix (1898), Vincent (1900?), John (1905), and Sylvia (1907)." What I said is based on a misreading of your blog, which refers to "three other brothers and a sister". I'll make a correction to the number of brothers, but I see you now have a different date of birth. Can you please say which you prefer and how it was arrived at?
3. "Also, I'm almost certain that he did not depart for Europe after the 1929 Crash." That's from a book by Clara Elizabeth Laughlin, So you're going to the Mediterranean! (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935), at p. 202.
4. "I do know that he lived for awhile with my Aunt Sylvia and in an apartment somewhere in the New York area. I'll see both my DeRosa first cousins this summer; they'll know." That may perhaps be during the War? I look forward to hearing more.

May I ask, what did you think of the article in general? I guess it may tell you about some of your uncle's theatres you didn't know about? Moonraker (talk) 02:59, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

On another matter, I couldn't find an obituary anywhere, but perhaps one of your relations has a newspaper clipping. In any event, would it be possible for you to find out the date of Eugene De Rosa's death and what he died of? If someone can tell you when and where he died, from that you should be able to get hold of a death certificate, which we can cite. Moonraker (talk) 03:15, 12 June 2012 (UTC)