{"id":1625,"date":"2010-10-24T14:10:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T07:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2014-02-26T09:43:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T02:43:44","slug":"finding-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2010\/10\/finding-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1626\" href=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2010\/10\/finding-family\/fragano-vincenzo-1886-05-27-birth-certificate-page1-thumb\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1626\" title=\"fragano-vincenzo-1886-05-27-birth-certificate-page1-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fragano-vincenzo-1886-05-27-birth-certificate-page1-thumb.png\" alt=\"fragano-vincenzo-1886-05-27-birth-certificate-page1-thumb\" width=\"387\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>The tradition in southern Italy is to name the first son after the father\u00b4s father, the second son after the mother\u00b4s father, the first daughter after the father\u00b4s mother and the second daughter after the mother\u00b4s mother.\u00a0 As the third son, my husband was named after his father.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because of the tradition, many names show up over and over on my husband\u00b4s family tree and its fun to\u00a0connect the birth order of each member to the source of his or her name.<\/p>\n<p>Through our hosts, we\u00a0met eighty year old Vincenze Maggio when we first arrived in Sciacca.\u00a0 We were not sure if he was in Chuck\u00b4s family line because there were no Vincenzes\u00a0in the four generations back that\u00a0we have documented.\u00a0\u00a0But there was certainly a family resemblance.<\/p>\n<p>I am new to geneological research.\u00a0 I don\u00b4t have all the internet resources lined up quite yet.\u00a0 I\u00b4m doing this the old-fashioned way &#8211; visiting cemeteries, churches and town halls.\u00a0 Unfortunately the person we needed to see at the cathedral was out of town so the chuch route was no help.\u00a0\u00a0But, luckily,\u00a0a staff member\u00a0at the cathedral pointed us\u00a0in the right direction.\u00a0\u00a0The town hall of Sciacca still has all the original birth and marriage certificates in a small office just off the corner of the courtyard. We walked through the open door and found a room lines with shelves and shelves of tall, old books!<\/p>\n<p>Three very helpful ladies patiently listened to my very broken Italian, looked at the family tree, and started the search for the father of my husband\u00b4s greatgrandfather.\u00a0Imagine our delight when they brought us the book and showed us that Cologero Maggio\u00b4s father was Vincenze Maggio!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The day we were leaving Sciacca, we met Vincenze for some granita and said our goodbyes to this dear old man.\u00a0 We will keep on doing more research\u00a0but we\u00a0adopted\u00a0him as a great uncle. Family found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tradition in southern Italy is to name the first son after the father\u00b4s father, the second son after the mother\u00b4s father, the first daughter after the father\u00b4s mother and the second daughter after the mother\u00b4s mother.\u00a0 As the third son, my husband was named after his father.\u00a0 Because of the tradition, many names show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colorscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}