The Tampa Records of midwife Maria Messina Greco - Births from 1908 to 1939    Email me  Danny Perez

NOTE:  I am no longer in possession of the midwife records.  I turned them over to Tampa's Cigar City Magazine editor a couple of years ago and they are in the process of transcribing the records.  The project is near completion.  When complete, the information will be posted to a website.  Afterward, the originals may be turned over to the USF Special Collections department for preservation and display.

Many years ago these records were sent to the Latter Day Saints church library in Salt Lake City and were put on microfilm.  These microfilms are available for viewing in the LDS Family History Center on Lutz Lake Fern Road near Gunn Highway in Lutz. 

7851 Lutz Lake Fern Rd
Odessa, Hillsborough, Florida, United States
Phone: 813-926-3596
Hours: T 10am-2pm; W 9am-1pm; Th 1pm-9pm; Sat 9am-1pm.
Closed: Fri., Sun., Mon. and major holidays.

The films are catalogued as:

This is a work in progress.  The years from 1908 through 1912 are being transcribed from the TYPEWRITTEN pages.
Read more about this at web site showing photos of the records and background info 

At some point after 1912, somebody began to translate the records from Italian and type them.  Maybe Maria herself.  At this point in time,  the entries on this web page from 1908 to 1912 will reflect the typewritten translated records.  It may contain errors as compared to the original handwritten books, as I have not yet compared every typewritten entry to the original records.  After I complete the entry of the records from the typewritten book, I will compare to the original handwritten books.

The original records show the city of origin of the father and mother, the typewritten book only gives the country, and most of the time not of the mother.  It is my opinion that in the typewritten binder, when both parents were from the same country, it was omitted from the mother's data.  Most of the Italian immigrants seem to have come from Santo Stefano or Alessandria.  

For most of the entries, both the typewritten book and the original handwritten records show the address of the birth.  Only the original handwritten note pads show the number of children born to the family, along with the number of children still living.  In order to expedite this work, I began by omitting the address of the birth, and was going to add the address after completing through 1912.  But then decided in 1909 to include them as I go along.  The address of the birth is useful if you search by address to find other births in the same home.  

Years transcribed and uploaded appear as links below:

1908    1909    1910 partial Excel spreadsheet    1910 partial text file

1911    1912    1913    1914    1915    1916    1917    1918    1919    1920    1921    1922

1923    1924    1925    1926    1927    1928    1929    1930    1931    1932    1933    1934    1935 through 1939

1908 is now complete.  All the births for 1909 are up, but cities and number of children are yet to be added.  Some addresses are up.