Did You Know

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Every month, the administrator of this site will select a factoid about our family for the front page. If you have a good idea for a Did You Know?, please post your idea on the Discussion page (see link at the top).

2006 Did You Know? Features

November. Rose Modica went to school until she was 14, and then began working at the Norwich Knitting Mill (an employer of many Elias). Because she was underage, her boss asked her to hide in the ladies restroom whenever the male inspectors came to look over the factory's operation.

October. Having named her first daughter after her mother Angela, and her second daughter after her father Michele, Marie Barbarossa resorted to thumbing through movie magazines as she looked forward to another daughter. Movie star Debra Padget's name struck her as pretty - and thus Debra Barbarossa (Dorward) was named.