My mother, Nancy, is the daughter of an Italian immigrant and a Pennsylvania German. Her father's family came from a hill town in Abruzzo; her mother's had been in Pennsylvania since 1750.
Two lines, each running down to one of my mother's parents. Documented = read in, or indexed from, civil registers; Family record = from the 1950 family history.
Carmine Cellucci and Floretta Nothstein were married at Stowe, Pennsylvania, on November 4, 1944. Their daughter Nancy married Larry Vanderslice — and so the Vanderslice, Cellucci and Nothstein lines all run down to me.
A double thread. Floretta was a Nothstein twice over. Her mother, Mabel Muthard, was the daughter of Emma David, whose mother, Emmaline, was a Nothstein — a sister of Floretta's grandfather Levi. So Charles Nothstein married the daughter of his own first cousin. The family history's dates for Emmaline's household don't fit together cleanly, so this rests on the book alone for now.
How these were found. The Cellucci generations come from Rapino's civil registers, which survive from 1809 and are published by the Italian state archives on the Portale Antenati. Carmine's birth entry has been read on the page; the others are taken from the portal's name index of those registers, each linked from its card. The Nothstein generations come from The First Nothstein Family History, 1750–1950, compiled by the family's reunion historians and printed in 1950. Its early chapters are footnoted to the Pennsylvania Archives, land-office surveys, church books and Northampton County wills; the later generations were reported by the families themselves. Neither line has yet been checked against the originals behind those sources.
This is a living document. Sources are given for each generation, with honest notes on what is proven and what is not. Corrections and additions are welcome through the contact page.
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