Dina Manfredini

Dina Manfredini - 115 years, 257 days, Italy and United States
Dina Manfredini, born Dina Gueri in 1897 emigrated from her home in Italy to the United States in 1920 with her husband Riccardo Manfredini. A validation report was published in 2020 by Young and Kroczek [39]. The validators did not report any personal contact for gathering testimony.

Dina was pregnant with her first daughter when she and her husband made their transatlantic journey. From that date forward, adequate documentation of her life can be found. Starting with her emigration record from 1920, she then appears in the 1930 and 1940 census with consistent record of her age. We found a picture of her in the Des Moines Register, Iowa dated 7 Jun 1944 with a report of her son being with the armed forces in England (Figure 8). Other events of her family’s life were covered in local news stories.

Her birth certificate was apparently shown in an Italian newspaper report, so the validators were able to confirm her birthdate. From an obituary, she is known to have outlived two sisters Lucia and Esterina, and a brother Angelo, but no further information about their birth or death records has been produced. She had made a return visit to Italy with her children where she reunited with her family, so details of this event would help rule out an identity switch.