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Christine
Great progress, congratulations!
I'm so glad you found Emilia's sisters, I was starting to really wonder what Emilia's surname was (after her mother's manifest)
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Valarie
Hello, I know it has been a few years. But are you all still active?? I think I can help with the Nutiles...and I think you may be able to help me. I am the great grandaughter of Giuseppe Nutile of Boston and Woburn, Massachusetts. He was the son of Angelo Nutile and Giuseppa (I a not sure of her maiden name). I believe they are from Avellino. I think we are related in some distant way..
The name Italia, probably a Graecized form of Italic Vitelia (='calf land'), was originally restricted to the southern half of the 'toe' but was gradually extended. By 450 B.C. It meant the region subsequently inhabited by the Bruttii; by 400 it embraced Lucania as well. Campania was included after ...
(after her mother's manifest)
