Four hundred years, two continents, one honest tree.
A sourced, fact-checked walk through the Maiale–Fellman family line — Hudson Valley patriots, Sicilian dockworkers, famine-era Irish immigrants, Connecticut town founders, and the myths an automated hint-tree quietly invented along the way.
Start with the New York frontier line → Browse the full tree ↗
Family Lines
Six deep-dive clusters, starting in the Hudson Valley: Sicilian, Irish, and colonial New England/frontier research.
Confirmed Findings
Revolutionary War patriots, colonial town founders, Salem witch trials, and Dutch/German immigrant lines — sourced and tagged.
DNA Corroboration
Where Ancestry's DNA Origins Journeys independently confirm the paper trail.
Notable Connections
Collateral cousins — verified, and the ones we ruled out.
Debunked Myths
The fabrications and errors we caught in the tree, kept visible on purpose.
The Domilici Investigation
Family lore says great-grandfather Simone Domilici ran numbers for the mob. Here's what the primary sources actually show.