Immigration story.

[ACM7]

Hello, I have been researching my 3rd great grandfather, Francesco DiCarmine/DiCarmino (I'll link a thread with more info on him) and since I cannot find more records on him, I have started using alternative approaches in order to find where he was from in Italy, e.g. looking at DNA and contacting fellow descendents on Ancestry.

A great grandchild of Francesco got back to me with a story that they had heard, about why Francesco came to the U.S. According to the story, Francesco's brother killed a man. And since he had a family, Francesco took the blame and came to the U.S. (I assume to escape punishment). And when he came to the U.S. his marriage to Caterina Panza was arranged in order to end the feud between families, though it seems that happened multiple years after ge came over.

I have a couple questions, what parts of this story might be reliable, and is this Romeo and Juliet-esque style, feuding families story a common myth among people with Italian heritage?


https://www.italiangenealogy.com/forum/ ... ilit=Laori

[savannah]

Hello, I have been researching my 3rd great grandfather, Francesco DiCarmine/DiCarmino (I'll link a thread with more info on him) and since I cannot find more records on him, I have started using alternative approaches in order to find where he was from in Italy, e.g. looking at DNA and contacting fellow descendents on Ancestry.

A great grandchild of Francesco got back to me with a story that they had heard, about why Francesco came to the U.S. According to the story, Francesco's brother killed a man. And since he had a family, Francesco took the blame and came to the U.S. (I assume to escape punishment). And when he came to the U.S. his marriage to Caterina Panza was arranged in order to end the feud between families, though it seems that happened multiple years after ge came over.

I have a couple questions, what parts of this story might be reliable, and is this Romeo and Juliet-esque style, feuding families story a common myth among people with Italian heritage?


https://www.italiangenealogy.com/forum/ ... ilit=Laori Trees Hate You

The emigration due to family trouble is plausible, but the murder confession and feud-ending marriage are harder to prove. Romeo-and-Juliet-style family feud stories are fairly common in Italian-American family traditions and are often embellished over time.

[ACM7]

Hello, I have been researching my 3rd great grandfather, Francesco DiCarmine/DiCarmino (I'll link a thread with more info on him) and since I cannot find more records on him, I have started using alternative approaches in order to find where he was from in Italy, e.g. looking at DNA and contacting fellow descendents on Ancestry.

A great grandchild of Francesco got back to me with a story that they had heard, about why Francesco came to the U.S. According to the story, Francesco's brother killed a man. And since he had a family, Francesco took the blame and came to the U.S. (I assume to escape punishment). And when he came to the U.S. his marriage to Caterina Panza was arranged in order to end the feud between families, though it seems that happened multiple years after ge came over.

I have a couple questions, what parts of this story might be reliable, and is this Romeo and Juliet-esque style, feuding families story a common myth among people with Italian heritage?


https://www.italiangenealogy.com/forum/ ... ilit=Laori Trees Hate You

The emigration due to family trouble is plausible, but the murder confession and feud-ending marriage are harder to prove. Romeo-and-Juliet-style family feud stories are fairly common in Italian-American family traditions and are often embellished over time.

Thank you Savannah, family stories do tend to get embellished.