Recent research activity.
Digging a little deeper, I found another generation back in Sicily, but that lead to a little confusion about a woman’s surname.
I’ve added family trees for descendants of the immigrants for Letizia, McHugh, Maciejczak and Wisniewski ancestors.
It took a Polish researcher and lots of studying the ever-changing borders of Polish and Prussian geography, to locate the tiny farmlands of my great-grandfather’s early days.
After years of stagnated research, one site has opened up a whole new path to generations past.
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…
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…