It’s been about a year since the last post. Apologies, but we’ve been heads down and foot on the gas for the entire time, and it has now paid off for the project in a big way. Like we did with Sassano, we have indexed three additional Salerno communes: Morigerati, Ispani, and Monte San Giacomo’s […]

After finishing the Herculean work of transcribing all the data from Sassano into family trees and then extracting the Monte San Giacomese, we took a break. But the pull was too strong. We’re back doing the same for (arguably) the other sister town to Monte San Giacomo, Teggiano (formerly Diano). We’re cruising along, up to […]

On this, the last update for 2021, it seems fitting to acknowledge just how many connections researching Pietro Antonio Policastro (see prior posts) has given us. Thanks to a friend of the project donating his research, we were able to discover several new US based marriages between children of Monte San Giacomo. Starting with Bridget […]

Apart from discovering dozens of Monte San Giacomese families, researching the Sassano church archives has finally shed light on a few Latin turns of phrase that I had not understood when looking through the Monte San Giacomo Processitti documents. Often names appear with an abbreviation : qm or sometimes qqm, when referring to two people […]

Continuing our lateral move through the families, this update concerns the family of Pietro Caruso and Erminia Flora. Their oldest son, Domenico was married to Lena Policastro, from the previous update. So far this family has been the hardest to research because for some of the children their mother is listed as Erminia Flora (from […]

In doing the research on the Turso family last month, I came across Jennie Policastro as one of the spouses. Whenever I see marriages in the USA involving Monte San Giacomo surnames, I jot them down so I can use them as potential future research. It bears out again and again that at least the […]

We are still combing through the mountains of records from Sassano, so this update will be modest one. New to the site is the family Raffaele Tursi and Pasqualina Monaco. Like many immigrants their surname changed from Tursi to both Turso and Tourso. Whether that was deliberate or inherited from mispronunciation or mishearing it is […]

We were able to break away from the Sassano research to spend some time in New Jersey and more interestingly Argentina. While there is a significant presence of Monte San Giacomese, a good number emigrated to/through Argentina as well. This update traces the family Angelo Policastro & Cristina Lisa (the family of a recent supporter), […]

A relatively minor update as we continue the work going through the Sassano archives to find marriages and families involving residents of Monte San Giacomo. We’re currently up to the year 1788! Even so we want to keep the project moving forward and so we worked on the ancestors of 2 recent site members which […]

Like much of the world, but for an entirely different reason, we are trying to get back to normal, which explains the lack of progress since December. Due to a software upgrade, the genealogy site was rendered unusable, requiring it to be rebuilt from scratch. After that, the integration with some commercial services failed, not […]