History of Italian immigrants to Olean area to be discussed Sunday

Jul 18, 2014 995

By Kelsey M. Boudin

You may be a Papasergi. Or perhaps a Carbone, DiGiglio, Pezzimenti or Scutella. And if you're still living in the Olean area, it's possible your family and others close by emigrated from the same Italian region — maybe even the same town — during a wave in the early 1900s.

The likely genealogy of those families and dozens more will be featured at the St. John's Festa Italiana Sunday afternoon, thanks to six years of research by Pete Palumbo of Bradford, Pa.

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Source: http://www.oleantimesherald.com/

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