I have been continuing to index my Omignano (OMG, No!) records, in between hunting down family of DNA matches. Every time I locate a record for one of my DNA matches, I add that record to my index, so even when I'm chasing matches I am still indexing! So I have some indexing that is done by year and other runs by surname. I've filled in a few more of the deaths for 1866-1874, completed the deaths for 1875 through part of 1889 and the births for 1866 and 1899.
The DNA match tree building has yielded some results - the Mobius strip twists further! I've managed to connect two sets of DNA matches (a woman and her nephew; a man, his first cousin, and his nephew) to one set of common ancestors, Francesco Giuliano (1808-1869) and his wife Carmela La Palementa (1815-1875), making the woman and man 4th cousins 1x removed. I've just merged a couple in my tree that I added from two completely different line building exercises (Francesco's parents via his sister Carmella), so now I am connected to those DNA matches via one marriage instead of two, but I'm not there yet. :)
I have a few potential connections that I have no paper trail to support. How many Nicola Chiariellos can there be in Omignano? In records that list only a father, that name appears alone. In records that list both parents, there is a Nicola Chiariello and his wife Luigia Giuliano. My suspicion is that those are all the same Nicola, which would connect two more siblings to the two with the known mother of Luigia, but given the number of name repeats in this town, I don't think I can make that claim yet. Maybe I will find another Chiariello record in the set to make those connections. <fingers crossed>
The index spreadsheet is definitely helping with the DNA matches. Being able to filter on surnames and find all the children from a particular couple is definitely a great time saver! At least, when they are all entered. The data entry continues....
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