Old thread.... but my great-grandparents were first cousins as well. I was led to believe that while it might not have been common there were no stigmas surrounding the issue. I am still curious.

Was it customary that ALL or MOST parents arranged marriages in the 1800's? If so, might that be a ...

Hello, if anyone is still out there! I have not been able to find more info on the Sasso line. I have the name of the 2 sisters, but every manifest I can find seems to indicate that it is not the right person.

All of them in my line (Papagni, Sasso, and Monopoli) seemed to come from Italy and stay ...

Thank you Vincenzo! I haven't come to this page for a long time. This helped me a lot!

Hi, the names on your Papagni list don't seem to be directly related to me... I haven't found a link, yet, anyway... I've sent a private message to you so we can get into more detail...

In the meantime, i'm still hoping for more info soon.....

Ok… here we go! First, I don’ t know how much info you have about your family, but here is what I have that is somewhat confusing:

I found your page on ellisisland…. My 1st question is, are you certain that is your family? All the names are correct, except that last name?

Interestingly ...

Wow, what happened to my response?

I left a really long detailed message that never posted... there was a really long delay and then it gave an error... I ran out of time and left a shorter one, and I don't see that one, either!

I am working on a response... I found some of your family but I'm not ...

Well, yes, perhaps you can help... what years did he live there? Do you know any of the names I listed? Most of the papagnis I know of came to MA... do you have relatives here? What info do you have?

I am looking at a very fuzzy copy of a draft reg from 1917. It APPEARS to say he is from Sava, Lecce.... in my searches I cannot find those two areas together! I also can't find anything similar in combo....

I always heard they were from abruzzo so at first I was confused... but there is a Lecce ...

Thanks for the info.... this will get me started.....

I don't know what records you have, but when I started, I went to the Ellis Island website and found some of my family... not all came thru there but some did. I joined a free trial membership on ancestry. com and found many records with my family on it... .census, ship manifest, draft reg.... in my ...

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I am relatively new to this family tree searching, but I have pretty much exhausted the search on Ancestry . com. I have found most of my ancestors in either census records, immigration records, or death records. I have an appointment to visit my local church hoping there are some records ...