Hi & Thanks for the welcome!

I've spent the last 5 years or so every weekend learning genealogy and researching my own family. I've mainly been focusing on trying to see how far back I can trace the Alfano and d'Accurso families back in Bisacquino. I suspect they go back to the 1500's but I find it harder and harder to get information from the records.

My great-grandmother, Santa Menotti travelled from Ancona, Marche with her parents and siblings in 1905 and settled in Dickinson, TX. I've found baptism records and mariage index for her parents Luigi Celeste Menotta (now Menotti) and Vittoria Orsola Elvira Gambini, then moved my focus to my great-grandfather, Saverio Alfano, from Bisacquino, Palermo, Sicily. Saverio Alfano, immigrated to Houston, TX, with his first wife, Maria Alduino, and young son, Salvatore, from Bisacquino, Palermo, in 1914. His first wife passed away, and he remarried to my great-grandmother, Santa. His parent's were Salvatore Alfano and Gaetana d'Accurso.

The earliest records I've found on the Alfano side is the marriage record, on 1 Sep 1765, for my 5x grandparents, Francesco Alfano, son of Guiseppe Alfano and Francesca Monte, and Pietra Savoca, daughter of Michaelangelo Savoca and Maria Ciulla. The family was still in Bisacquino at that time.

The earliest records I've found on the d'Accurso side is the marriage record on 26 Nov 1831, for my 4x grandparents, Saverio d'Accurso son of Lorenzo d'Accurso and Mattia Montalbano, and Saveria Montalbano daughter of Gaetano Montalbano and Catarina Spada. Again, all in Bisacquino.

Other family names that have married into these families include: Orlando, Pizzitola, Venezia, Ganci, and Romano.

I'm open to and appreciate any advice or information anyone shares, and am happy to assist others if I am able.