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A Genealogy Journal by Phyllis Winike Zeck Tracing My Italian Ancestors

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In my previous post I wrote about the Baumann branch of my mother-in-law Yvonne Porche Zeck’s family. In my research for that post I stumbled across a fascinating family biography in WikiTree about the Porche branch. Zenon Porche (1791-1861) was Yvonne’s great grandfather. Zenon’s great grandparents were Jacques Le Porche (1655-1731) and Marie Philiberte Quanta...

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  In 2013 I wrote a post about my mother-in-law, Yvonne Porche Zeck’s ancestry. It’s been awhile since I’ve been back to research her family tree and in the past 10 years I’ve acquired many photos and contacts from the Baumann branch. The two books above have peaked my desire to revisit this family.  The book “Lost […]

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I have three photos of my great-grandfather Pietro Del Principe. That sounds like plenty—until you start wanting more. Every time I look at those photos, I catch myself wondering who else was there, who took them, and whether there’s another image of Pietro still hiding somewhere, waiting to be found. Legend has it that Pietro did not […]

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Corinne and Phyllis. Sisters and best friends. My mother passed away in 2004. It was especially hard on my Aunt Phyllis as Corinne was her baby sister. When Auntie passed away in 2013 she left instructions that she wanted to be buried at Mount Carmel in Illinois near her mother and father (Bertha and Gilbert). She is […]

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