Ancestry/Genealogy

Re: the DuBois family....never thought I'd say this in a million years, but I'm proud to say that a little cursory research has revealed to me that this is also the same family of none other than.....wait for it.....W.E.B. DuBois. The African-American philosopher & early Civil Rights figure. What a honor!

Also, for any DUers of Italian(particularly Sicilian) heritage, you may be interested by this.

Petta-This one I only recently discovered, but possibly the most interesting yet. Sicilian, but not only that, but they came from a particular town, by the name of Piana del Greci...which happens to be well-known within Italy for it's long-standing Arbereshe Albanian heritage. So they might very well be Albanian, too, on top of that. Married into my Dockery line by way of one Alfred Kubitz, Sr.(mother was Mary Dockery; they themselves married into the very same branch of the Land family that happens to be the very same one that my 4th-great-grandfather came from.)
Barbuzza-Married into the Petta family above. May possibly be Italo-Albanian, as well, given that they came from the same town in Sicily.
LaNeri-The original immigrant was from Genoa.
Pecorara-May have been spelled Pecoraro originally[Interesting tidbit: while on the Wiki article about Francesco Cuccia, a Cosa Nostra associate and former mayor of Piana del Greci I read about a Giorgio Pecoraro who was involved in the local socialist movement lead by Nicolo Barbato around the turn of the century, both of whom died fighting the Mafia. Could he be related to this family?].
Scarlatti-The original immigrant was Sicilian too, but she was from Roccapalumba.

More to come soon.....