Ciampanella/Champanella/Champnella
This part of the family tree gets crazy. Currently I am running 4 separate trees on ancestry.com because I lack the connecting dot to each tree.
All refer to the same area in Italy - Arquata del Tronto. All refer to being cousins on the information coming from Ellis Island.
1st group - Minnie(Domenica), Domenic, Lucia and Santee - children of Carmine Ciampanella and Beatrice DeSantis. From Arquata and settled in Preston County, WV
2nd group - Silvestro(Joseph), Augusso, Ubaldo, Antonio - I have info on Silvestro's family. But, I do have a Margaret Champanella - their relative somehow based on newpaper clippings, etc and I have her related to me but in a different way. Her second husband was a Beeman and the Beeman family married into the Clark family which in turn had one Clark John marry my great aunt Mae Florence Dawson - the other side of my mom's family. From Arquato. Don't know who their parents are. Silvestro settled in Preston County, nothing else currently known on the three other brothers. Working on trying to get Margaret's living daughter-in-law to answer phone calls and letters to maybe give some information on her. 3rd Group - Edward(Edoard), Annibale, Antonio and Loreto - children of Ferdinand Ciampanella and Annie? From....yep, you got - Arquata del Tronto. Edward did a name change from Ciampanella to Champnella some time between the 1920 and 1930 census. One son Fredrick is still living in the Detroit, MI area and is over 90 years old - dementia and limited recollection of family history. Have made contact with several of his granddaughters through Facebook. 4th Group - I call them the McDowell County, WV Ciampanella- They include: Benedetto and Arturo(Agostino) and a half brother Antonio. Parents of the first two is Massimino Ciampanella and Guitatta Santolini. Antonio's mother is unknown at this time. From, where else, Arquata del Tronto. My living connection here is a grandaughter to Benedetto and, she is a Mormon and works part time for Family Search. But, she knows about as much as I do. Mormon researchers have been restricted to certain areas of Italy to pull records from. Being that Arquato is so close to Rome and this area has been off limits to the Mormon researchers. Rumor has it that the Ladder Day Saints are planning to build a temple in Rome. Should prove for some interesting conversation!!
........to be continued. Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny. Mahatma Gandhi Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)
2nd group - Silvestro(Joseph), Augusso, Ubaldo, Antonio - I have info on Silvestro's family. But, I do have a Margaret Champanella - their relative somehow based on newpaper clippings, etc and I have her related to me but in a different way. Her second husband was a Beeman and the Beeman family married into the Clark family which in turn had one Clark John marry my great aunt Mae Florence Dawson - the other side of my mom's family. From Arquato. Don't know who their parents are. Silvestro settled in Preston County, nothing else currently known on the three other brothers. Working on trying to get Margaret's living daughter-in-law to answer phone calls and letters to maybe give some information on her. 3rd Group - Edward(Edoard), Annibale, Antonio and Loreto - children of Ferdinand Ciampanella and Annie? From....yep, you got - Arquata del Tronto. Edward did a name change from Ciampanella to Champnella some time between the 1920 and 1930 census. One son Fredrick is still living in the Detroit, MI area and is over 90 years old - dementia and limited recollection of family history. Have made contact with several of his granddaughters through Facebook. 4th Group - I call them the McDowell County, WV Ciampanella- They include: Benedetto and Arturo(Agostino) and a half brother Antonio. Parents of the first two is Massimino Ciampanella and Guitatta Santolini. Antonio's mother is unknown at this time. From, where else, Arquata del Tronto. My living connection here is a grandaughter to Benedetto and, she is a Mormon and works part time for Family Search. But, she knows about as much as I do. Mormon researchers have been restricted to certain areas of Italy to pull records from. Being that Arquato is so close to Rome and this area has been off limits to the Mormon researchers. Rumor has it that the Ladder Day Saints are planning to build a temple in Rome. Should prove for some interesting conversation!!
........to be continued. Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny. Mahatma Gandhi Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)
