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…

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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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