Triangulating Hints to Discover Angela and Beyond

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…

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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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