Hello -- my great-grandfather, Nicola Mazza, was from Brucoli. Are you familiar with the surname Mazza there? Would love to find out more about the village and families there, and its history. (I don't know anything about the history, either.)
My mom and dad came from two very different classes of Italian society. Dad's mom came from a very aristocrat family and mom's came from farmers and agricultural workers. When my mom's parents came to the US, they left their oldest son Giovanni in the care of my maternal grandmother's parents. I hea...