I have read with great interest the posts regarding the Fellin ancestry. My great aunt had a dear friend, Josephine Fellin, who was born in Kennemer, WY in the early 1900's to parents who immigrated from Amblar, Italy. Her mother died a few days after she was born. When she was about 4 years old, her father sent her back to live with her grandparents in Italy near the Val di Non, San Remo, and Amblar. She remained there until she was in her mid-20s, when she rejoined her father and stepmother in the states. Josie (as we called her) worked as a nurse's aide in the labor and delivery department in hospitals in Arkansas City, Kansas, which is where she became friends with my aunt, a nurse. Josie never married, and eventually spent her later years in the Wichita Kansas area and died several years ago at around 92 years of age. She had lived with my great aunt for several years before her death.

My husband and I spent three weeks in Italy in 1998. We travelled to Bolzano, and because of the predominance of German spoken in that part of the country, we were unsuccessful in our attempts to travel to Amblar to see if we could locate some of Josie's ancestors. My great aunt has many family photographs of Josie with notes on who is in the photographs. Many of these people were from Amblar, others were Fellin relatives that had immigrated to the U.S. in the late 1800s.

Josie's passport states her given name was Giusseppina Fellin. I believe her father went by Frank when he immigrated the the U.S. If my memory serves me correctly, I believe he died in the mid 1950s in Arkansas City, Kansas.

If anyone has any information on this group of Fellin's, my great aunt might be able to shed some light on this portion of the family tree.