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Website News → Last Update: December 21, 2006

The Elia Family Project currently contains 234 articles. This section of the front page will detail the most significant changes.

• Transferred 2 biographies since the last update
• Created 5 almanac pages since the last update
• Transferred the calendar for January from the old site
• The new site reached 100 articles

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This site is ever-growing, and you too can edit these pages! Here's what you need to know about contributing.

Here's what to do to help:

• Web Site To Do List - the most needed pages and edits
• Community Blog - post your feedback and suggestions
• Help Page - the main help page, with tips on reading and editing
• Most Wanted Pages - a list of the most-needed pages based on number of links

Featured Page Of October, 2025

Check out the biography of →Ann Naccarato←, the grand-daughter of Maria and Nicola Elia.

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Family Announcements

Here you can see the most-recently posted announcements - to post your own, click the word edit next to the Newest Entry heading. Put the newest announcemnt at the top of the list, delete the last announcement, and change the Newest Entry date. Please also post on the archived announcements page.

Newest Entry: November 20, 2006

• November 20, 2006. The Elia wiki site has its grand opening! In test mode for a month, an email went out to family alerting the Elias that the new site is now the official Elia Family web site.
• November 20, 2006. Jason Majewski's 2007 Reunion Survey arrived in many Elia mailboxes throughout the USA. Please fill out your surveys as soon as you can, and lets give Jason all the support and help he needs!
• November 16, 2006. Jason Majewski is planning to send out a mailing shortly to determine interest in a 2007 Elia family reunion. Details coming soon.
• November 12, 2006. Calling hours for Frank Benedicto are Tuesday, November 14, 5-7 at Wilson Funeral Home, 68 S. Broad St., Norwich NY. Funeral mass is Wednesday at 10:30am at St. Bartholomew's Church, 8 Silver St., Norwich, NY.

Did You Know?

Like many Mediterraneans, Maria Elia was an ardent believer in the malocchio, the Evil Eye. Infants and the elderly were especially susceptible; intentionally or unintentionally if one were glanced at by a person afflicted with jealousy or other disreputable emotions, the victim of the malocchio would suffer sickness. She would advise her children and grandchildren that a hand gesture, the manu cornuto, could ward off the malocchio, but this gesture was itself fraught with spiritual dangers. Maria could diagnose the evil eye by noting if olive oil dripped in water took the form of an eye; and could cure it with recitation of prayers, confirmed when the oil no longer formed at the top of the bowl. More information.