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In my case, when very young, the whole immediate family resided in close proximity... including my father and grandfather (James David, Jr., and James David, (Sr., added later).
His grandfather, a publisher, was allied with the turn of the century dictator whose highhanded rule provoked the Mexican revolution.
El Abuelo (Grandfather)
In the Ernest Baughman Collection at the University of New Mexico Library, an informant narrates being told by her grandfather in Tesuque, New Mexico, about La Mano Negra.
Or they tacked on the first name of his father or grandfather, who himself, reflecting Italy's tangled history, tended to be called by some version of a Latin, ancient Germanic, saint's, or Old Testament name: Giovanni Fabrizio derived his surname from Fabricius, Giovanni Alighieri from Aldiger, Giovanni Ciccarelli from Francis , and Giovanni Giacobazzi from Jacob .