the word shaker's tree

got a boatload of old scraps of paper that my great great grandma wrote her family history on when she was in her 90s. most of it is hard to decipher (she is senile as she writes most of these and also probably learned this history as a child so it’s romanticized) but from this single note & what I know already of my family tree I found articles on fucking JSTOR that have anonymized accounts of my family’s history which is INSANE.

my great great grandma was only 7 when she left the Sicilian abbey she and her mom were both raised on! her grandpa was the cousin (person B) mentioned in the article! her mom is person E! I am the descendants who went to the US! We are the cousins of this shitty Baron who did not raise their social status!!!

the cousin (person D) who died in prison is a notorious Mafia boss and my great great uncle and I have letters he wrote from prison!!