Most of my family history is in a tree on Ancestry.com, but unfortunately those cannot be made public. You have to have a membership to see it. So I’ll be adding some portions of the tree here in a Trees page. I’ve just posted two charts showing the descendants of…
Digging through more records on a cold and wet Saturday afternoon, I was able to learn more about a GGGG-grandfather and confirm yet another GGGGG-grandfather, namely Marco Maucione. And once again it’s due to my 4xg-aunt getting married. My ggg-grandmother was Felicia Maucione. She had a younger sister, Catterina, who…
Today I tracked down a document that provided me with the name of my GGGGG-Grandfather, Crescenzio Tancredi, who lived from the mid 1700s to early 1800s, in Castelluccia in the province known then as Principato Citeriore. This was in the Kingdom of Naples, and a year before the date of…
On an earlier version of this website, I had started accumulating some personal stories and biographies of my ancestors. I’ve added a page for this purpose, which I’ll add to over time. The first tale is that of my maternal grandfather, John McHugh. He’s the son of Irish immigrants, the…
UPDATE to the previous post: After skimming page by page through only hundreds (it would’ve been thousands) I found an 1865 marriage record for Pasquale Carmelo Tumminello to Rosalia Maria Glorioso, names I’ve had in my info for many years. Pasquale is the son of Carmelo Filippo Tumminello and Concetta…
Often when I have a few free hours on a Saturday afternoon I might randomly start looking through genealogy sites. Often I come across info I already have or at least have seen before, but every once-in-a-while I find something new, and then find myself lost down a path. That’s…
It’s 2020 and this broken site is in need of an overhaul, so I’m changing it up. I spend a little time, several weekends each month, doing some kind of genealogy research, so this new site is going to have pages of information, news about discoveries (or mysteries) and an…
