From Opi to Opportunity: The Moscati Family’s New York Beginning
Ron Moscati emailed me several years ago with an interesting story about his ancestors. You can read about his amazing […]
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Every journal entry about Pescasseroli and Opi, the villages in the mountains of Abruzzo where the family’s story begins.

Ron Moscati emailed me several years ago with an interesting story about his ancestors. You can read about his amazing […]
Last year I received an email from Marco which included some photos of his ancestors. Marco and I are connected […]
Looking for something to watch now that the Olympics are over? Youtube has some great videos highlighting Pescasseroli and Opi. […]
This winter I was looking for some images to purchase for the walls of our new home. I bought these […]
A few weeks ago my cousin, Joe Del Principe, emailed me a link to a you tube video that we’d […]
Below is continued research from Kathy at GenTracer. She has dug deeper into our family roots to uncover more about […]
One of the first blogs that I wrote (see post from Oct 30, 2010) about was the town that my […]
Last month Lisa & Mark visited Europe and one of their stops was Pescasseroli. Lisa’s great grandparents were Pietro Del […]
My great grandmother was Elvira Ciolli. Her mother was Filomena Ursitti and Filomena was born in the town of Opi. […]
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