Vanchella Vagabonds

As I've developed my genealogy skills and our tree has grown to unwieldy proportions, I have begun to follow the suggestion to always have a research question to guide my projects. For this project, I started with the question: Who is the woman on the left in the photo? The other people are part of the family of John's maternal great-grandmother, Maria Rosaria Giorlando. She is pictured here (l-r) with her 4 children born in Alcamo, Sicily: Vincenza, Benvenuta, Maria, and Giovanni. The oldest daughter, Maria, is John's maternal grandmother. From family resemblance, it's clear that the two women are related? Is it Maria Rosaria's mother, a sister, a cousin? Family of Maria Rosaria Giorlando and Antonio Milano. Antonio Milano immigrated to the U.S. in March of 1913. Maria Rosaria, and their 4 children, joined him in December of 1916. Their 5th child, Settimo, called Sam, was born in Detroit, Michigan, where the family settled. Passenger manifest for Maria Rosaria and ...

  We've been very fortunate to have taken three cruises since my last pandemic cruising post: 12 days Iceland and Great Britain, 9 days Great Britain and Ireland (both on Carnival in July), and 15 days transatlantic Southampton to NYC (on Princess in September). I hadn't planned on cruising so much Summer 2022, but it worked out that some of the time cruising was less expensive than paying for an Airbnb or airfare to return to the States! Our itineraries.  I am quite behind in my blogging, but I do want to share this travel (especially since several people requested hearing about specific ports). Some ports were visited more than once, so I'm going to talk about each port rather than go by cruise. But first, a few thoughts on 'pandemic cruising.'  Among the minority of maskers. I think this will actually be the last blog about pandemic cruising specifically, since it seems passengers and cruise lines have collectively agreed there is no need for concern any longer. ...