A principios de siglo se encontro en Boston con familiares emigrados a Sudamerica.
My father went to Argentina with his family as a young boy. but , They did
not stay there. They returned to Italy and later came to the to the United
States. The following three paragraphs are from my brother’s tree. He lived
in Italy from 1925 to 1928. But, He died in 1996.

The Martinelli's were native Italian's, perhaps as far back as the
Tuscan's. Living in the state of Tuscany, Province of Massa Carrara, the
area where the Pleasance took place among the fourteen and sixteenth
centwy. The most noted Martinelli to bear the name no relation was Giovanni
Maitinelli the noted operatic tenor who was to succeed Caruso, but never
quite made it.

Late in the nineteenth century Pietro Martinelli took his young family to
Argentina in South America where others from Rocca Sigilinia their native
home in Italy have already settled. His wives sisters family were already
there. They filed a Claim for one hundred twenty acres and after a certain
period and qualifications were met the property would be legally theirs.