Classify Italian-American politician

[Tacitus]

Joe DioGuardi. Father's side is Arbereshe from Greci (AV), mother's side is southern Italian.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Joseph_DioGuardi.jpg/220px-Joseph_DioGuardi.jpg

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/03/16/nyregion/16dioguardi-cityroom/16dioguardi-cityroom-blogSpan.jpg

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/6l6BQwUx-0E/hqdefault.jpg

http://prishtinapress.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/135.jpg

[Ulla]

DioGuardi don't seem an Arberesh surname.

[Sikeliot]

DioGuardi don't seem an Arberesh surname.

It's common amongst them.

[Tacitus]

DioGuardi don't seem an Arberesh surname.

http://www.gens.info/lib/cog/maps/cognomi/D/DIOGUARDI.gif

Apparently it's most common in Puglia and Sicily, but it shows up in the area where DioGuardi's father is from.

[TIGERZZZ]

looks greek

[Ulla]

It's common amongst them.

Not really, not common. It's widespread outside Arberesh communities.

Dioguardi has some variants in Italy, Diotiguardi. It could be a surname connected with children of orphanages, like Deodato, Diolaiuti, Diotallevi, Degli Esposti (Emilia-Romagna), Degl'Innocenti (Tuscany), Esposito (Naples), Trovato (Sicily)...

[Ulla]

Apparently it's most common in Puglia and Sicily, but it shows up in the area where DioGuardi's father is from.

Yes, but check the names of these places in Sicily and Puglia. They are not Arberesh communities.

[MINARDOWICZ]

Looks Balkan, to me.

[Tacitus]

Yes, but check the names of these places in Sicily and Puglia. They are not Arberesh communities.

Either way it's present in the Arbereshe town of his ancestors. There are Arbereshe that have regular Italian names rather than Greek or Albanian-derived ones, and I guess DioGuardi would be an example here.

[Stefan_Dusan]

He is basically alpine, with some med features for good measure.

[Ulla]

Either way it's present in the Arbereshe town of his ancestors. There are Arbereshe that have regular Italian names rather than Greek or Albanian-derived ones, and I guess DioGuardi would be an example here.

Probably his family is the only Arbereshe one with that surname. DioGuardi (Diotiguardi) sounds like "I hope God protect (watch over) you", it's a surname chosen for orphans according to many sources that I've found.

Surely there are Arbereshe that have regular Italian surnames. I guess that Arberesh communities were less "closed" than we usually believe.

[cally]

Alpine-med & CM

[Smeagol]

Alpinid with some Mediterranid influence.

[Kastrioti1443]

Arberesh have mixed a lot with southern italians, and only a very few villages are pure. Arberesh started to integrate in the italian society after 1700s, so even the surnames are not pure. A good percentage of Garibaldi's army was Albanian.

[Tacitus]

Bump

[Tooting Carmen]

Alpine-med & CM

More-or-less.