Magna Grecia and Southern Italian surnames

DangKwei

Another user and I were having a discussion on here about the origin of surnames in our ancestral comune. He found a post from the Magna Grecia Facebook page which lists many of them which are common to the area. We saw a couple of ours in the post!

https://www.facebook.com/StatoDueSicilieMagnaGrecia/posts/pfbid0MKmsDmiGGs3PakzdeipH6pPa2p4NFeSBWSszdfiAd33wFyyXqgP7x8ypHzrqCjK3l

If you have relatives from Southern Italy, it could be that you have Greek ancestry as well. These surnames could be clues to further your genealogical research. Here's some background on Magna Grecia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Graecia

PABulfinch

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