Mancuso Name Study

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The goal of this project is to find every non-living person with this surname and make a wikitree profile for them. We are especially interested in two Mancuso Families from Alia, Sicilia, the ancestors of Marina Mancuso, and the ancestors of Filomena Mancuso who immigrated to New Orleans in the late 1800s. We have not yet found a connection between these two women, and we are trying to determine if there was more than one Mancuso family or if their two families are actually related down the line. They married Centanni cousins.

The name Mancuso means "left-handed", which means the family could have more than one progenitor. More research is needed and we hope you will join us in the search!

We would also like to trace the descendants of the Mancuso family in Italy, in the United States and wherever else they may have emigrated.

We have ancestors of our Mancuso families going back to about 1750 on wikitree.com. We need church records from the 1700s. and the 1600s if we are to trace these families further back in time. Civil records are available on familysearch.org, but they only date to about 1806, during the reign of Napoleon.

Right now this project needs a manager.

Here are some of the tasks that we think need to be done. We'll be working on them, and could use your help.

• Finding church records from the 1700s, and the 1600s, from Alia, Sicilia and surrounding villages.
• Adding sources
• Adding categories
• Adding relevant templates
• Connecting family members to the global family tree.