San Giovanni in Fiore

A visit to an ancestral home – San Giovanni in Fiore (part 3) Museo Demologico dell’Economia, del Lavoro e della storia Sociale

The Museum of Sila Economy, Labor and Social History depicts life in San Giovanni and the surrounding area. It was and is a life of hard work in beautiful but difficult terrain. When emigrants from SGiF arrived in the United States in West Virginia and Central Pennsylvania, they must have felt somewhat at home asContinue reading “A visit to an ancestral home – San Giovanni in Fiore (part 3) Museo Demologico dell’Economia, del Lavoro e della storia Sociale”

A visit to an ancestral home – San Giovanni in Fiore (part 2) Abbazia Florense

HISTORY OF SAN GIOVANNI IN FIORE From Wikipedia – “In 1189, Gioacchino da Fiore founded his abbey outside today’s town center in what is called the Fiore Vètere neighborhood. Several years later in 1194, the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI of the Hohenstaufen family granted the abbot a vast plot of land corresponding to SanContinue reading “A visit to an ancestral home – San Giovanni in Fiore (part 2) Abbazia Florense”

A visit to an ancestral home – San Giovanni in Fiore. (part 1) Home of house Succurro and my cousin (?) the mayor :-)

This story begins about nine months ago when I got a notice from ancestry.com that my great grandfather’s naturalization papers had been posted on line. While I am not hugely into genealogy, I do dabble just to see what I can see. I am one half Italian (third generation), on my father’s side, but theContinue reading “A visit to an ancestral home – San Giovanni in Fiore. (part 1) Home of house Succurro and my cousin (?) the mayor :-)”