Magagna Genealogy

[kass_rants]

It's taken me decades to figure out which one of my Irish ancestors actually first came to the US on a boat.  But my Tyrolean ancestry is a little bit easier.  My auntie just popped over to Revò in Trentino alto Adige in Italy and had a look at the picture on the wall in the house where my grandfather was born.  =)

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[guy_todd]

which one of my Irish ancestors actually first came to the US on a boat

They all did; no planes in 1847. :p

/brat

[heidilea]

McGann and Magagna! Hee! I didn't notice that until you said it.

You are Macgan Squared.

[kass_rants]

When my father and my mother got engaged, people thought they were cousins. You see my Dad (the McGann) was a friend of my uncle (the Magagna) and they called my uncle "Magan". Which of course sounds like McGann because no one really pronounces the "c".

This usually spawns a lot of "Oh so your parents are cousins? That explains a lot" jokes. :/

I say them very differently: "mahGAN" versus "mah-GAN-yah". But I'm a snotbag. People where I grow up say them the same.

Of course they also say Ferrari "feh-RAR-ee" and I pronounce it in the Italian way, like the car. =)

[heidilea]

Yes! Fer-rare-ee? That's how they say it in East Vineland, aka "New Italy," where Jim is from.

[kass_rants]

Yeah. That's it! I couldn't figure out how to write it.

Of course they also say EYE-talian, so there is something terribly messed up there.

[brickhousewench]

OK, I just spent way too long reading about your mummified "cousin."

Thanks for the cool lunchtime diversion! ;-)

[kass_rants]

My Mum would be so proud. Glad to be of service! =)

[fallconsmate]

that's so cool!

my aunties went to europe a few years back, and met up with the family in switzerland. my grandfather and his parents came over in the early 1900's, from a tiny village in the french-speaking section of switzerland. and yep, one of the great-uncles who came over later was a watchmaker! :D

finding the family history is neat. having an assholish relative who decides that SHE is the only one who can decide who can look at the archives at ancestry.com is a pain in the rear. (yes, she's one of THOSE people, and she really irritated my dad, because he was the one to put the majority of the research online.)

[kass_rants]

Oh yeah. Ick. Not cool. Not cool at all. Families can be such jackasses sometimes.