I didn't know that either.
Not the same historic significance perhaps.... but another Italian in
the news this week - Steve Carell has been affected as both writer and
actor in the drama of television writers strike.
If you wanted to try to trace his ancestry, you would want to look for
Caroselli. It seems his father shortened the spelling to Carell,
sometimes written as Carrell.
Lura
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Olson" <ericbear01(a)earthlink.net>
To: "CARROLL-DNA-L" <CARROLL-DNA-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 9:28 AM
Subject: [CARROLL-DNA] CARREL
:I didn't know that!
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: The second party to climb the Matterhorn, in 1865, was led by
Jean-Antoine Carrel... an Italian...
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: See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matterhorn
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: See:
http://outside.away.com/magazine/200005/200005hardway4.html
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: Eric