Category: Sicilian Ancestry
Marianna Vinci – Are you out there?
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…
The Cassata Family of Lascari
Digging a little deeper, I found another generation back in Sicily, but that lead to a little confusion about a woman’s surname.
Second Chances, and The Paths to and from Citizenship
How it took decades for my Sicilian born grandfather to get his citizenship, and only a day for my American grandmother to lose hers.
New Charts
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…
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…
Getting Lost in the Woods
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…
Marianna Vinci – Are you out there?
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…
The Cassata Family of Lascari
Digging a little deeper, I found another generation back in Sicily, but that lead to a little confusion about a woman’s surname.
Second Chances, and The Paths to and from Citizenship
How it took decades for my Sicilian born grandfather to get his citizenship, and only a day for my American grandmother to lose hers.
New Charts
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…
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…
Getting Lost in the Woods
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…