From the old country to the new world, and from the mill towns of the northeast to the farmlands of the American south.
This account is based chiefly on a 1977 oral interview with Loreto Salvucci, and was prepared by Bill Marchione for the Salvucci Family Reunion, held on March 27, 2004 My great grandfather, Pietro Salvucci, was the first member of his family to reach America, arriving in 1898. He was the eldest child of Carmine Salvucci …
Continue reading Some Historical Notes on the Family of Pietro Salvucci
The Salvucci and Sacchetti Families San Donato val di Comino, Italy, the home base of the Salvucci clan, a mountainside village in Italy’s Lazio region about 90 miles southeast of Rome in an area known as the Ciociaria. My mother’s family, the Salvuccis, came from the town of San Donato val di Comino, Province of Frosinone, …
The Marchione, Consolmagno, and Costanza Families The “birds of passage” phenomenon saw millions of Italian males emigrate to America in the late 19th and early 20th without their families, oftentimes spending years in this country before bringing over their wives and children and making a permanent commitment to this country. This phenomenon had an …
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