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| The church where my ancestors were baptized and married. |
It happened again. One of those well-produced ancestry TV shows we all love traced not one, but two actresses back to European royalty.
Is that what it takes to be an actress? Royal blood?
I've gone pretty far back in my ancestry. I know the names of some of my sixth great grandparents on two lines, fifth great grandparents on another line, and fourth great grandparents on the fourth.
They're all from poverty-stricken southern Italy. They're from five rural, tiny, neighboring towns.
And the majority of them worked the land to grow their food and feed their small amount of livestock.
I come from peasants.
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| My grandmother's first cousin, Vincenzo Sarracino, never left our ancestral hometown of Pastene, Italy. |
And I'll make sure my sons know where their roots grow the deepest. We'll toast our ancestral province of Benevento.
Celebrate your heritage this holiday. Share some of your more interesting findings with your family. Be proud of where and who you come from.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Celebrating My Italian Roots:
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