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ALTAVILLIA MILICIA SICILY Vanessa ANCESTRY PALERMO

❤️Altavilla Milicia Sicily, 20 km East of Palermo. Home to Vanessa's Great-Grandmother that immigrated all the way to San Jose California in 1898 and this is home to all of their extended family. We explored the city for the day. Met a lot of locals who were happy to talk to us. We even met a family with the same surname, Romano as her ancestor. Also, we met a 100-year-old man (Talk about history) and his family that invited us into their home. They gifted me a Chicago Cubs shirt for some reason that I am wearing in part of the video, some of my family is from Chicago, so why not, but I am a San Francisco Giants fan. ❤️We found the oldest church from the 1400s, learned the story of the Madonna painting of Altavillia Milica, I didn't have time to squeeze in this video but I'll type it below. A wedding was going on inside so we couldn't go in. But it was great hiking up to this town on the hill and going down to the sea below to close out the day. 👍Family history & town history below: ❤️Altavillia Milicia history: Named after the French Norman Hauteville family who conquered Sicily in the 1000s AD. The French family name roughly translates to Milicia and Altavilla = high villa because the town is on a hill. 🤔Phoenician, Greek, and Carthaginian history was in the region of the town between 1000 BC-200s BC. 200s BC-400AD Roman Republic/Empire dominated Sicily. After the fall of Western Roman Empire. Byzantine then Arabic rulers heled the area from 500s-1000s. The Norman French came into Sicily displacing the Arab power, around the time when the village was founded. Subsequent rulers of Sicily like the Aragonese, Kingdom of 2 Sicilies, Spanish Empire and more ruled until 1860s when Sicily was added to the Kingdom of Italy. 🤔The town's claim to fame though is the "Madonna della Milicia". 1636, as the town was preparing for Catholic feast day, Barbary pirates were lurking off the coasts. Barbary Pirates of North Africa had been frequently raiding Sicilian coasts.. One day in 1636, the ship had the painting of the Madonna, looted from somewhere else, on board. Its believed Mary herself whipped up a storm setting the ship of course so it couldn't land. The ship's Muslim crew, scared of the power of the painting, threw it overboard and sailed off. It landed ashore on the beach below Alllavilla Milicia where a sanctuary marks that occasion, to this day. And an annual feast celebrates the occasion. All kinds of interesting traditions are done like hoisting children in the air as angels and people make a pilgrimage from the beach to the church. The painting resides inside the church to this day and the people will always remember how it saved the village. Vanessa's ancestors for sure knew this story, participated in the festival, and they are lucky they weren't whisked away by pirates. 😊Vanessa's direct ancestors come from here. I research on ancestry. com, numbers indicate generations & I did not add siblings, cousins, uncles, aunts in the tree, which there were many, just to save confusion. 👍Charles P Gullo (Vanessa's grandfather) (1917-2013) (born San Jose CA) 1. Joseph J Gullo (1882-1941)Palermo Sicilly immigrated 1907 San Jose California 2. Francesca D’amico {his mother, no further record or about Gullo father} 1.Marie Romano (1885-) Altavilla Milicia Sicily {immigrated to America 1898} {*1900 SJ CA census} 2. Guiseppe Romano (1848-1926) {immigrated 1898} 2. Angelina Consarga (1847-1916) {immigrated 1898} 3.Calogero Romano Jr (1826-1879) Menfi-Altavilla Milicia-Sicily 4. Calogero Romano Sr. (1789-1854) 5. Guiseppe Romano (1740-1821) Altavilla 5. Santa Bufalo (1744-1834) ‘’ 4. Antonia Gaetano Campisi Lombardo (1785-1835) 5. Givovanni Lombardo (1765-1842) 5. Maria Anna Nicoletti (1765-) 3.Giovanna LoBosco (1830-1901) Alia-Altavilla Milicia- Sicily 4. Guiseppe LoBosco (1795-1871) Altavilla Milicia 5. Pasquale LoBosco (1751-1811) 5. Angela Mazzola (-1811 4. Nunzia Farina (1800-1837) 5. Vincenzo Farina (1767-1851) 6. Mariano Farina 6. Antonia Giuliano 5. Giovanna Mucia (1777-1835) ✌️Thanks for watching, reading, @ray.z.a INSTAGRAM