He attended a post-graduate semester at the University of Illinois where he was a student of renowned hydrology theorist Ven Te Chow.
[4] Since 2017, Coniglio has been a technical consultant on foundlings for Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s PBS television series Finding Your Roots.
[5][6] In 2013 he received a first-place NAMPA award for his column "Breaking Down the 1930 Census: The Search for Our Ancestry" in the monthly magazine Forever Young.
Coniglio is currently working on his first full-length novel, to be entitled The Mountain of the Hawk (La Serra del Falcone), a fictional account based on the history of his ancestral town of Serradifalco and its inhabitants.
In the early 1970s, he brought a class action suit against the National Football League over its policy of charging full regular-season prices for meaningless exhibition games mandatorily included in season-ticket packages.
[21] He is a strong advocate for recognition of Sicilian heritage, actively writing and posting articles about the history of Sicily, its language and its contributions to world culture, which he maintains far outweigh negative elements often emphasized in popular media.
[22] His love for Sicilian culture led him to become a minor investor in a full-length documentary film by author and producer Mark Spano.
Coniglio and his wife Angela Bongiovanni summer at their cottage on Crystal Beach Hill in Ontario, Canada.
[26] Coniglio and his wife had two children, both of whom predeceased him: Angelo Raymond and Angela Yvonne, a 2021 inductee to the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.