Frank Sinatra was born 100 years ago today.
In our family there is a story. The story goes like this: In the early 50's there was a wedding of someone related to my Mom's side of the family. Another person who was invited to that same wedding, but did not attend...was Frank Sinatra. He was too busy at that time, running after Ava Gardner (who he eventually married). Minus the side of the family where this supposed connection occurs and who was the relative who ferreted out this connection (remember, this was before anyone really dived into genealogy...well, minus the Mormon's). Those are the facts, as stated and passed down in my family.
I did a genealogy run, back in the 90's and was getting nowhere.
Just the other day I did another Internet check and found quite a bit more information at these 2 sites. One of the sites is via geni.com (a company that my ex-boyfriend worked for). You can see it HERE.
The other site (geneanet.org) has a substantial amount of information, bringing the Sinatra family back to the 1700's. Quite an impressive body of research, which you can view HERE.
A couple of things stick out right away. The first one is that there are not many children in his family. Frank was an only child, due to the problems his mother had at the time of his birth, but there don't seem to be large families in this chart. I do see that the names carry the Italian way of baby naming. We are a predictable lot, in that regard.
There is a great grandmother on his mother's side of the family simply referred to as Theresa X. Could that be the connection that I am looking for? I have absolutely no idea...but I think I will continue to do other research on this.
No matter what, related or not, he was quite a performer and it is an honor to even say that maybe I might be related to him.
Happy Birthday Frank.
This story has been going around as long as you & I have been here. Truthfully I really don't care if he is or isn't, but that's just me.
ReplyDeleteI have so little on that particular side of our family, that the chances of ever making the connection are small. Still, if I had seen a town in Italy I recognized, or a last name that made the connection, it would have been cool.
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