Grandpa Marco

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…

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A New Grandfather

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…

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Connecting the Dots for Kissing Cousins

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…

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Starting Anew

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…

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