Donebest@aol.com wrote: > Many years ago there was an article in the magazine of our Atlanta Sunday > paper about a group of young people who were going, or had gone, on some sort of > expedition (art?) to a little town in Italy. There was a background photo of > the town showing very old castlelike structures or battlements. The name of > the town was Pacentro, as well as I can remember. Does anyone know about this > place and if it could be connected to our Paces? > Kathy Best > Hi Kathy, I hope I'm still on this US list. My Italian friends have always been in touch with me and grateful to know, even though I'm from England. Permit me to say the following, which is very popular in Eastern Canada, maybe not so elsewhere, but I have grown up with Italian people here in Ontario. They seem to know about all of this name business. Right now, my friend Mastromarko, from southern Italia where he says the families are partly Arabic, says the northern Italians were PACE Jewish descent and many believe went to England and Germany. This seems to be well known in Barkan countries ( southern Europe along the Mediterranian) If this is true, maybe I am Jewish, but I don't know about that, for sure. I have many German friends and I am as Jewish to them as they are, but other German friends are the same as me. This Rootsweb list is for Genealogy, maybe not ethnick history, again, you have to be careful about it but who are we anyway. Just doing our Family history. The name PACE transcends many countries, so can we be classified as one race or another? This needs to be a European study, I'm a citizen of UE and would like to know more but some folks would rather hide stuff in the dark. Maybe more talk later if this survives the list censors. GTP