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A New Year – 2018

Hello All:

I am new to website design but have been doing family history research, aka genealogy for 20 years.  I started with the families of my father, Salvatore Merolla, and have seen branched out to the different surnames associated with the Merolla family from Gravina in Puglia, in Southern Italy, as well as the genealogy of my wife Nancy.  We’ll see where we go with this website.  Perhaps you have information you would like to share.  What I know is any long trip starts with a single step forward.  So here goes…..