Madaline/Madelyn/Maddalena Colautti. Senior High School yearbook oil Portrait Fall 1963, Randall's studio with photo ( inset) taken graduation night, June 4, 1964. 18 years old.
The story behind the first name. It was given by father Angelo Colautti after his mother, Maddalena Pasutti Colautti. However his wife Ermelin gave Madaline the Anglicized form. Mamma taught me to spell it Madeline. However, years later when I ordered a copy of my birth certificate so I could obtain a passport, we discovered that the name was spelled 'Madaline.In my teens, I changed the spelling to 'Madelyn' to reflect the way most people pronounced it. I once told Papa that I wished Mamma had kept the Italian form of the name. He happily called me 'Maddalena' for the rest of his life. It is the name I prefer.
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...
The 1960's were years of great change: Protests (Vietnam War, Free Speech, Civil Rights), assassinations (JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby Kennedy), conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, ...
Discover school and class photos from past decades.
Every school picture is a celebration of the milestone of another year of learning, and captures snapshots of children and young adults as they mature over the years. Images of classrooms and institu...
I am interested in finding family. I was recently found because of the Internet by my cousins the children of my father's only brother whom we had never met. Papa came to the USA alone from Italy in 1921 and lost contact with his family during WWII. Until our recent contact, we had never seen pictures or met any of his family. It has been a miracle finally seeing pictures of his birthplace and his family, noting family resemblances, and exchanging letters. I have a great interest in Italy and Italian culture. Father, Angelo Eugenio, Colautti. Mother Ermelin Fereira Colautti, sister, Rose Marie Colautti