Pater - Have tried all you suggestions already without luck. Am unsure if it is Avellino the town or the province for Francesco. Everyone of the children of Frank and Mary are either passed on or are suffering from Alzhiemers (even though there were 12 children).
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Peter - Thanks for the prompt reply! Frank and Mary Williams (DiGuglielmo) were married in the US in either Brooklyn or in the mid-Hudson Valley (where I grew up). The story goes that it was an arranged marriage. Mary died in the summer of 1964 while in a nursing home, but I remember that she went ...

Peter - Have found my great-grandfather - Francesco DiGuglielmo in Ellis Island research, but where do I find his parents in Avellino - parents are Antonio and Katerina according to the death certificate. My great-grandmother Maria Julia Sceppia Caroppolo (sp?) is no where to be found in any records ...

My geneology research started with an assist to my son with a social studies project. Am hitting brick walls for my great-grandfather, Francesco DiGuglielmo, who came through Ellis Island in the easrly 1900s (found it there), my great-grandmother whose surname is (according to family stories ...