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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Jake Cincotta's Passport Application

When the Cincotta family of my grandmother moved to this country, most of their children had been born. Soon enough, they had a child in Malden ma. that they named Jacob. They decided to return to Malfa with Jacob and the rest of the family stayed here. Jake was raised on the island and when he decided to return here, this was his passport application.

Thanks Patrick van der Hoeven for this image.

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Sunday, November 11, 2018

My cousin is once removed!

So many asked me to explain how the cousin relationship works. well here it is as best I can explain it. I hope this helps you all.
I warn you that typing these and having them show up on the page correctly without breaking up and appearing all over the page is tough, so this may be a little strange looking. I will hand write and photograph them later and replace this post.

Parents.

sibling sibling

first cousin first cousin

second cousin second cousin

third cousin third cousin

etc.

Patrick van der Hoeven in Australia shared this note with me:
I saw your post about the first, second, and other cousins. Here is another way to look at it. Look at the number of g's in your shared ancestor at the same level. Count them. That is the level of cousin that you are. eg grandfather = first cousin; great grandfather = second cousin; great great great great grandmother = 5th cousin.

Parents

sibling sibling

first cousin first cousin

first cousin 1

first cousin 2

first cousin 3

etc.

1 above is once removed
2 above is twice removed
3 above is thrice removed

parents

sibling sibling

First cousin first cousin

second cousin second cousin

second cousin once removed*

* also first cousin twice removed from the cousin above left

Additional Generations

Thank you Patrick Van der Hoeven for a few more details. Here are a couple of updates, a few members that predate Giovanna Vasquez and Gaetano Cafarella.

Giovanna's parents are: Giuseppe Vasquez 1781- 1845 and Rosa Giuttari 1790 - 1845

Gaetano Cafarella's Parents were: Antonino Cafarella 1775 - and Maria Giuseppa Randazzo 1780 -

Moving down a generation, we find Rosa Cusolito Cafarella who was married to Giuseppe Cafarella , son of Giovanna Vasquez and Gaetano Cafarella.

Her father was Bartolo Cusolito . 1808-1890

Her mother was Giuseppa Cammarda . Giuseppa's father was Bartolo Cammarda.

Friday, September 28, 2018

Anerio Cincotta on death.

Anerio has been diagnosed with septicemia. This is not likely to be beaten and he plans only a few weeks to live at this writing. He is, as always, good humored about it. Always prone to a joke on any subject, being one of the nicest guys I know, he said: " You come into this world wearing nothing, and you go out wearing a nice suit!". He is looking forward to seeing all the family that he has missed for so long.

Anerio died on Friday November 9th 2018.

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

From Cafarella to Van der Hoeven

Grammie's...(Maria Rosa Cincotta Cafarella) Mother had a brother Domenico. He was also our grandfather, John Cafarella's(the barber) uncle.(Confused already?)
Domenico married Rose Patane. They had at least seven children.
Jenny is the woman who married Joseph Cafarella and this is Rose and Jake's family. Joseph was the one murdered in his store.
Antonio is the man who married Grammie's sister Carolina and had their children in Livorno.
The other child that I now know about is Salvatore, not to be confused with Carolina's son of the same name.
Salvatore, married to Sebastianna Greco, had a child named Rosa. She grew up in Stazzo, a village near Acireale in Sicily.
Rosa married Rosario Fichera.
Rosa's daughter Lucia has fed me all the information on this branch of the family through her husband Patrick Van der Hoeven. Lucia is the daughter of Rosa and Rosario pictured here.