Entries related to my paternal Columbus line.
New discoveries in the family line have been been rare this year. I have quite a few documents that I’ve discovered that I haven’t fully investigated to find new bits of info, and many leads through ancestry.com that I haven’t explored. This morning, however, I took some time take a…
Researching genealogy is tricky, because it’s not as if all the records for everyone exist somewhere. That’s just not the case, especially when you’re researching lives from hundreds of years ago. And even if all the records exist for all my ancestors (which they don’t, but let’s assume) they aren’t…
As I mentioned previously, sometimes I pick a person at the end of a line and focus on researching their life, hoping to find clues about them or beyond them. For several weeks now I’ve been looking for more hints about Marianna Vinci, my 3x-great-grandmother from Cefalu, Sicily, specifically when…
Digging a little deeper, I found another generation back in Sicily, but that lead to a little confusion about a woman’s surname.
How it took decades for my Sicilian born grandfather to get his citizenship, and only a day for my American grandmother to lose hers.
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…
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…
