FerroFamily.net is a limited membership website for descendants of Savatore & Carmela Ferro, and their families.

Salvatore & Carmella emigrated from the town of Ucria in Messina Province in Sicily and settled in Waltham Massachusetts in the early part of the last century. They had ten children and those children had 39 children of their own (citation: John Coraccio, Jr.'s "Once upon a time".

We started this website as a place to share our family's photograph collection. Since I took possession of my family photo albums several years ago from my sister Jean, I had an idea to scan all of the material and so to digitize the entire collection.

I started with the oldest pictures first. I've found just a few photos of my grandfather and grandmother- Salvatore & Carmela, and I wish there were more. My grandfather died the year before I was born and I would like to see more pictures of him especially. There are some great old pictures of our many aunts and uncles and their kids.

I have a few documents too. Salvatore & Carmela's death certificates and some ship manifests from the port of Boston. I posted them in the forum.

This website is a place where we can privately share our family's memories. Please join up and get involved.

My brother David secured the domain name and hosting for the website for three years into the future. I designed and built the site.

To all our cousins

The website is not public, but private. Casual visitors to this site see only three pages- home, contact and register. Once you join, and login as a member, the hidden content is revealed. I have set up this site to exclude anyone who has no connection to our family. 

The site is secure, designed to exclude strangers, and the biggest barrier to membership is the family connection section at registration. The information entered into the registration form is emailed to David and myself. If it is obvious that the membership request is legitimate you will be approved for membership and welcomed.

Our vision for ferrofamily.net is as a permanent online repository of the Ferro family archives. Just as the National Archives is working towards digitizing it's entire collection, and google is on a mission to digitize every book in every library, we should be doing the same with our family heritage collections. The old pictures and documents that we all have are at risk from fire and loss because they are only paper. Once they are digitized, we increase the chance that the material will be available to our children and our children's children.

Pete ferro