Acknowedgements

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Co-Financer of the project “Italians in the Gold Rush and Beyond.”

 

 

Direzione Generale per gli Italiani all'Estero e le Politiche Migratorie (DGIEPM) - Direttore Generale per gli Italiani all'Estero e le Politiche Migratorie, Ministro Plenipotenziario Adriano Benedetti - Consigliere d'Ambasciata Cristiano Maggipinto, Capo Segreteria DGIEPM - Consigliere d'Ambasciata Daniele Perico, Capo dell’Ufficio II DGIEPM - Dr.ssa Anna Maria Venanzi, Ufficio II DGIEPM

 

I would like to thank all of those who have collaborated with me since the project began in 1999. They are all a part of this book. A special thanks to Gretchen Williams Jurek, of Auburn, California, for her enthusiasm and determination for doing field research during the first years of the project.

 

 

UNITED STATES

United States

Albrecht, Don – Mine Museum, Auburn (CA)
Anderson, Annie – Director, Folsom History Museum, Folsom (CA)
Annotico, Richard Anthony, Los Angeles (CA)
Antonini, Marisa – Piemontesi nel Mondo, Los Angeles (CA)
Bagnatori, Giuseppe –  Lucchesi nel Mondo –  San Francisco (CA)
Baker, Cindy L. – Murer House Foundation, Folsom (CA)
Baker, Scott – Archeologist, Columbia State Historic Park, Columbia (CA)
Benedetti, Robert R. –College Dean, University of the Pacific, Stockton (CA)
Betti, Franco – Professor, UCLA, Italian Department, Los Angeles (CA)
Bizzotto, Fr.Giovanni – St. Peter's Italian Catholic Church
Blauvelt, Frank –  Secretary of the Kennedy Mine Foundation –  Jackson (CA)
Boggio, Maria – La Garibaldina Associazione, Los Angeles (CA)
Bonacci, Tony – Vice Consul, Italian Consulate, Los Angeles, Phoenix (AZ)
Borgnis, Jerry – Colfax (CA)
Brasioli, Diego –Consul General, Italian Consulate, Los Angeles (CA)
Carpenito, Antoniucci Amelia – Past Director, Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco
Cerruti,Bill –  California Italian – American Task Force, Sacramento (CA)
Ciavolella, Massimo –  Director, Italian Department, UCLA, Los Angeles (CA)
Cinquini, Patrizia –  Italian Cultural Society, Sacramento (CA)
Costantini, Nick– President, Historical Italian Hall Foundation, Los Angeles (CA)
De Santis, Frank – Orange County American Italian Renaissance Foundation, Santa Ana (CA)
Delucchi, Mario – President, Liguri nel Mondo, San Francisco (CA)
Delucchi, Kathleen – San Francisco (CA)
Ferrera,Bruno –  Reno (NV)
Figone, Liana Giannini – President, ICF, San Francisco (CA)
Finazzo, Stefano, President, Italian American Club, San Pedro, Los Angeles (CA)
Fink, Guido – Past Director, Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles (CA)
Fregulia, Carolyn –  Jackson (CA)
Friend, Charlene – Newport Beach (CA)
Gardella, Gene –  Reno (NV)
Genocchio, Frank –  Santa Clara (CA)
Gentile, Dominick – Editor of “La Voce”, Las Vegas (NV)
Ghezzi, Nicoletta – La Casa Giocosa, Los Angeles (CA)
Ghizzi, Mario – President, Trentini nel Mondo, Los Angeles (CA)
Ghezzo, Anthony – Federated Italo– Americans of Southern California (CA)
La Banca, Joe – President. Federated Italo– Americans of Southern California (CA)
Lofgren, Martha Clark – City Manager Folsom, Folsom (CA)
Luciani, Pier Giorgio – President, Famiglia Triveneta di Los Angeles, Santa Monica (CA)
Maria Gloria – Journalist, San Francisco (CA)
Ottirger, Connie –  Kaiser Mine, Desert Center (CA)
Palmisano, Anthony – San Gennaro Feast, Las Vegas (NV)
Perniciaro, Gianvittorio –  Fondatore Circolo ALI, Trabuco Canyon, (CA)
Pilisi, Luciano & Melanie –  Reno (NV)
Piovano, Rubens – Deputy Director IIC, Los Angeles (CA)
Riboli, Santo – Riboli Wines, Los Angeles (CA)
Roscigno, Massimo – Past Consul General of Italy, Los Angeles (CA)
Rouillard,Jerry – Director, Placer County Museum, Auburn (CA)
Sacco, John Ben – President,  Sierra International Machinery Inc – Bakersfield (CA)
Sagan, Ginetta –  Founder of Amnesty International USA, Palo Alto (CA)
Sagan, Lorin –  San Francisco (CA)
Sensi-Isolani, Paola A. – Professor, Saint Mary’s College of California, Moranga (CA)
Smaldino, Luigi – Music Critic, Los Angeles (CA)
Sturla, Patricia – President,  Patricia Sturla Studios, Inc. , Los Angeles (CA)
Trecco, Mario – Editor, L’Italo-Americano, Burbank, (CA)
Tyler, Marcella Leonetti – NIAF, Los Angeles (CA)
Varlotta, Maria – Fameja Veneta, Rancho Palos Verdes, (CA)
Ventress, Joseph L. – President, Italian Heritage Cultural Foundation, Santa Monica (CA)
Zuccarello Giovanni – President, C.O.M.I.T.E.S. of Los Angeles, (CA)