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Sweet William

Sweet William Restacked Last week I bemoaned the challenges faced in searching for my Sicilian ancestors. Names repeated and tangled into each other, providing generations of the same name. Many Italian-American families, like mine, christened their first-born sons with the paternal grandfather's name. Second born sons were given the maternal grandfather's name, and the third… Continue reading Sweet William