Survival

Summary: Survival: The Saga of My Ancestors describes five generations that emanated from Germany and Italy. It is based on research through ancestry.com and other internet sources as well as interviews with relatives and discoveries in long-forgotten closets and scrapbooks. It includes tales of immigration settling and dealing with successes and failures. The people depicted are hard-working most of them in the steel related industries of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. In addition to chapters on each of the four branches of the author's heritage there are chapters that deal with the research process.