This is a work in progress I can and often do make typos and mistakes if you see 
something that is not correct, Please let me know. I appriciate any help I can get. 
This website contains only those who have passed away. For information about the 
living, you would need to contact me directly. When there was time I tried to write a 
little about the person, if you want to write something that you would like me to put 
by relative's name, or perhaps a photo,or document, please send it to me I will be 
happy to put on the site. Please take a look at the links as well as the photos and 
please feel free to sign the guest book so we see who was here. 

                      MY ARBERESH AND SICILIAN FAMILY
This website is dedicated to the descendants of Giuseppe Mezzanares and Rosalia 
Clementi in the hopes that we will get to know our ancestors, and appriciate our 
Arberesh/Sicilian history and our culture that we all share and in doing so, get to 
know one another as well...... This is how I began and now things have grown and many 
new and very distant cousins have met each other. The Mezzanares family actually began 
in Spain as MANZANARES, Our Tommaso came to Palermo sometime before 1749 where he was 
Married to Anna Basile, all the Manzanares, Mezzanares, and Mazzanares in Italy are 
descendants from this Tommaso.... All Mezzanares in America are descendant from this 
Tommaso. Our Mezzanares' came to Piana Dei Greci in about 1830  and Married in to the 
Arberesh, some of them came to America, some are still in Piana. Some Manzanares 
remained in Sicily and Sardenga, some Mezzanares still remain in other parts of 
Sicily, Some Mazzanares are in Palermo, Bologna and Beilla, we are all of the same 
beginning. 
The Clementi's are an old family in Piana as are our ancestors on that side, there is 
so much to learn of our Arberesh history and culture, hopefuly you will learn or share 
something here.

                              MY BRITISH FAMILY

In this process of researching my family, I began to also look at the British side I 
had very little information, but with the help of some wonderful cousins and other 
people I have been able to put together the beginnings of a family tree for my 
Saunders, Giddings, Gould, and Johnson lines. Our end of the family came here  from 
England, first they went to Canada and then some went on to America. There are 
descendants from the 
Saunders in England, America, Canada, New Zealand and possibly Australia. Our Saunders 
seems to have orriginated from Dinton Buckinghamshire England... There are Giddings 
and Gould descendants in England, Canada and America. Goulds orriginated in Sommerset 
around Shepton Mallet, and We are not sure where the Gidding's are from, we pick up 
Thomas giddings in Bristol, but feel he was born somewhere else. Hopefully these trees 
will grow and we will all know each other too, little by little. Many of the 
Birthdates in England are actually baptism dates, so please be careful quoting them.   

Jo Saunders
 

  
    
    
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