My great grandfather immigrated to Philadelphia at the age of 17 on February 11th 1910 on the S.S. Virginia sailing from Naples.

My grandfather said he was very stoic and never spoke of his past much, but knew he was an orphan from Abruzzo with no connection or family left in Italy.

His ...

You can inherit more ethnic dna from one ancestor and less from another. My mother is half Italian, so I should be something around 25%, but when I add up all of the percentages that come from southern Italy (middle eastern, Greek, Sardinian, etc.; I come out to have approximately 35% “Italian” dna ...