Travel Tuesday: Mexico City to San Antonio, 1955

A couple of weeks ago, I was going through my many (mostly unhelpful) shaky leaf hints on Ancestry.com, and I came across a couple new ones related to my great-grandparents, Adele and Luigi (Louis) Licciardi. It was an American Airlines passenger list showing arrival in San Antonio, TX from Mexico City in 1955. On the left is the first page with information about the plane and crew, and on the right you will see Adele and Luigi listed. (Click for larger view.)

Now, I try to keep up-to-date with the list of new databases that Ancestry.com is always adding. I'm sure that I saw the addition of this database, but, being that I have zero relations who lived in Texas, I did not think much of it. I'm glad Ancestry flagged this one for me, because I'm sure I wouldn't have found it otherwise.

I had known that my great-grandparents enjoyed traveling abroad in their early retirement years. They went (back) to Europe at least a couple of times and I have seen a photo of them in Mexico. Next time I am back at my parents' house, I will have to look through old photos again and see if any of them are dated January 1955.

©2015, Emily Kowalski Schroeder

Source: Passenger and Crew Manifests of Airplanes Arriving at San Antonio, Texas 1955-1957. NARA Microform publication A3974. 9 rolls. NAI: 2922359. Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004, Record Group 85, The National Archives at Washington, DC