| Atena Lucana, Ancestral home of the Fressola
Family All color photos on this page courtesy of Giulio Salemme, one of the finest genealogists in the world 
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| The building below is called Casa Fressola | |
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Another view of Casa Fressola | This building is called Vico San Nicola |
This is the Porta D'aquila, one time home of Damiano Curto in the 1800's | |
 Giulio Salemme | After over 30
years of trying to get some information about my grandfather Vincenzo Fressola's family in Atena Lucana, I came upon Giulio Salemme via the
internet. He went to Atena Lucana and traced our family back
to the 1700's. He copied more documents in that one visit
than I have gotten for all 4 of my italian families with dozens
of letters over all these years.
 Here is the Fressola Family: back row: (from left to right), Ciro Fressola, Louis Mango, John Spina, Vincent Toma. Front row, Vincenzo Fressola age 11, Carmela Planzo Fressola, Millie Mango Ferrara (age 6) Maria Fressola Mango, with baby James Mango; Julie Mango Maffei, Filomena Fressola Spina, with baby Jenny Spina; Vincenza Fressola Toma, age 17. Photo taken September 1909. | ||