California Italian 3rd Cousins

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Through my genealogy research I discovered a California branch of Granda Lena’s mother’s family. Granda Lena, (Anna Angela (Peracchio) Marchisa), was brought to the US by her aunt Anna Maria Catterina (Rosasco) Maffei. Her aunt is the great grandmother of Tricia Bryant and her sister Deborah Maffei who currently live in northern California with their families.Their grandfather Ettore Maffei was Granda Lena’s first cousin and they exchanged many postcards as children.Those postcards , saved by Granda Lena, were translated and used to locate Tricia and Deborah. Tom and Rose visited with Tricia and Deborah this month. It was such a wonderful experience to connect with a branch of the family that we didn’t know about growing up.