Since I can’t (and won’t) request the original documents from the State Archives of Parma, which has a series titled “ Leva Militare,” meaning “military draft,” with a 209 pages of records from the Parma Draft office (1883-1915) due to COVID-19, there is something that I am apt to write during these times: a story about my ancestors and the H1N1 flu pandemic, incorrectly named the “Spanish flu,” which lasted from 1918 to 1920. in an effort to avoid the draft in the then-Kingdom of Italy. In my last post on this blog, I posed a theory that my ancestor, Angelo LanFranchi, immigrated to the U.S.
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