The only place I see mentioned in either record is Lipari. In the first record, the district and province - Messina - are also identified.

In the second record, Salvatore is age 26.

I read contadino(a) as the word following their names. It's their occupation - peasant. Like the tomato paste.

What about the validity and reliability of reference panels used to estimate ethnicity?

For example,
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/ ... uage=en_US

Is this her?

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903 ... 39Y4?i=381

https://www.familysearch.org/search/tre ... e=grimaldi

GIGIDANELLE might be "cicerenella" https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicerenella an ancient popular song and nursery rhyme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx8Dd1Zvl2I Cicerenella significa letteralmente, in lingua napoletana, piccolo cece. Nella cultura di massa provinciale, è un nomignolo go...

*uzza(u)

Also, she doesn't sound the final vowel of mozzarella.

Compare with omitting the final vowel in Marianina - Madianeen.

Not that you wrote that she pronounced the r in mozzarella as a d.

Compare with r in Maria/Marianna.

I wonder if "Madianeen" could be "Marianina" or little Maria: Maria-nina. Or, perhaps, "Mariananina" little Mariana: Mariana-nina. The letter r being sounded as d in dialect, and the final vowel not sounded. Endearment diminutives I'm most familiar with are uccia(o) and...

According to his death record, Saverio Marullo was born in Mistretta.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903 ... -CF9L?i=54

It was Marullo Noe who was born in Mistretta. Place of birth for his father is not recorded.

...has at least one if not both parents who were born In Porto Empedocile, Sicily or a nearby town.

Just wondering how you know that?

Although any migration scenario is possible for a given individual or family, migration northward in stages over generations makes sense. The traditional migration framework consists of pushes from the place of origin and pulls from the place of destination (attractions), with distance and interveni...