Josephine Oliveri (Rizzo) - Josephine's parents

Private User My first attempt at tagging you in the discussion didn't work so this should bring you to it this time that i did it right :-)

Can we tell if these 2 are the parents of Josephine rizzo who married tony Oliveri. I'm hoping so. That would give me a chance to find out if Giovannini had a brother named Alberto Mucia my birth maternal great grandfather whom I could never trace

Private User, Yes it looks like from what I have seen that those two are the parents of Josephine Rizzo who married Tony Oliveri..everything is pretty much matching up...although I'm seeing some minor differences. It looks like the name is actually Muceo nd not Mucia or Muscia...but maybe they ended up using a varied spelling in the USA.

And it looks like there was a brother named Alberto... Take a look again now at what I have added and tied together. I need to take a look again tomorrow and I can probably add in the rest of the Muceo children of Gaspare Muceo and Giuseppa Rizzo. I'm heading to bed now

Now that we have gathered up some of the pieces we can look at them again and make sure they fit.

John Oliveri confirmed today. His maternal grandmother is Giovanni Mucia and his grandpa is rizzo. I've been trying to connect Alberto Mucia to a family for quite some time. Thanks so much

Do you know how I can research foundlings in Sicily? Philip Cummuta was raised on a farm in Altavillilicia by Loretta arena and rose (Oliveri) who took him from a home with a girl named Sophia But when Philip came to America he used the surname of Cummuta. Sophia married a pano and stayed on the east coast It's all a mystery why he changed from the arena name to Cummuta. Like I said he was a foundling

Great! I think there were certainly some spelling variations with the names but that is typical...

Researching a foundling probably would be difficult I bet! I was reading what is on Philip's pages. Do we even know if that is his real birth date? Do we even know if he is from Altavilla Milicia? Interesting...I haven't had run into a know family story like that personally. I can't think of anything at the moment.

I know you have taken the FamilyFinder test from familytreedna.com. Have any of your male Cummuta relatives taken the yDNA test to see if it closely matches any other surnames?

John

I think Michael Cummuta took it. I bought it for his dad's 90 th birthday but unle Leo was skeptical so I suggested that mike, his son, take it. I' can check or you can send him a message. I know he is as interested in this as I am.

I sent him a message on here. You should have received it too. Since i'm not a close enough family member I can not see his e-mail address easily.

John

mjcummute@aol.com