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Dear Readers,

The Sarli Journal is just a few weeks old. The purpose of the journal is to share information about the ancestors and descendants of Rocco Vincenzo Sarli AKA Joseph Louis Mott.

Do you have information to share? I would like to hear from you! Hellos, questions, feedback, suggestions, etc.

But you may not know how to "comment." Currently, you do not have to join the blog through email invitations I sent out to be able to comment. All you have to do is click on the little bar at the bottom of the article that reads either "no comments" or "1 comment" or "2 comments" or how ever many comments there are. A box to write in will pop up and you write in it, and then click "publish."

IN A NUTSHELL

And before I go back a little deeper into the Sarli Family Tree, I want to recap:

Egidiantonio Sarli (1817-1860) and Maria Carmela Marone (1821-1869) had seven children. Only two sons survived. One stayed and married (twice) and died in Laurenzana. That was the older brother, Vito Maria Sarli (1855-1944). The younger brother, Rocco Vincenzo Sarli AKA Joseph Louis Mott (1857-1894) left with his harp as a youth and went to America.

Both Sarli sons have numerous posterity. Vito Maria had seven children with his first wife Maria Vittoria Fanelli, but only two sons grew to adulthood, Egidio Antonio and Francesco Antonio. They settled in the Chicago area of Illinois. 

Vito Maria had four children with his second wife Angela Carmela Mastro, but only one son, Battista, and one daughter, Maria Carmela, lived to adulthood. Battista settled in the Worcester area of Massachusetts. Maria Carmela stayed in Laurenzana and married Luigi Policarpio De Carolis and together they had four sons and two daughters.

Rocco Vincenzo AKA Joseph Louis Mott had four sons with his wife Mary Emeline Kelly in Morgan, Colorado. Three lived to adulthood, Joseph "Elmer," Joel "Heber," and Jacob Lyman, all carrying the Mott surname.

Why did Rocco completely change his name? And why did he choose "Joseph" "Louis" "Mott"? Those are the million-dollar questions.