A user-supplied Facebook thread reports a Busso-born ancestor named Liberato Iaciofano who arrived in the United States in 1908 on the Konigin Louise and died in New York City on 18 July 1933. A New York City death certificate for Liberato Iaciofano confirms a same-name Bronx peddler who died on that date after a truck/runaway-horse accident, but it records age 55, 42 years in the United States, wife Filomena, father Domenick, mother Anna Venditta, and son Dominic. The certificate does not state Busso, so this remains a collateral Busso/New York lead rather than a proven relative of Tony Iacofano's line.
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1878 –
Does the original 1908 passenger-list image for the Konigin Louise name Liberato Iaciofano, and does it state Busso, age, nearest relative, or destination?
Does a St. Raymond cemetery or tombstone record give Liberato's exact birth date, spouse, plot, or family members buried with him?
Can Busso civil registers or annual indexes identify a Liberato Iaciofano born about 1873-1885, especially with parents Domenico/Domenick Iaciofano and Anna Venditta?
Is the NYC death-certificate subject the same person Daniel Iaciofano described, given the conflicts in age and years in the United States?
Do Liberato's wife Filomena, son Dominic, or other children connect to Daniel's line or to any Cleveland/Cuyahoga Iacofano branch?
Notes
Notes
Lead created 24 April 2026 from the user-supplied Facebook thread and the NYC Municipal Archives death certificate.
The death certificate's age 55 implies birth about 1878; the Facebook thread preserves competing implied birth years of about 1873 and about 1885.
The death certificate's 42-years-in-United-States field implies arrival about 1891, which conflicts with the thread's reported 1908 passenger-list clue.
Keep this as a separate Busso/New York collateral lead. Do not merge with `lead-john-iacofano-1874` or `lead-giovanni-iaciofano-busso-1876` without a document-backed bridge.
