No, mostly Neapolitan ancestry on my father’s side. Mother’s side is (Quaker) German, Irish, Dutch. I am darker than the average German or Brit, but not that dark skinned really. Just that I know in many parts of the US in the early 20th century, Italians were considered “other” than white.
I loved my brother in law....His father was from the old country (shhh black hand) but that was another branch of the family...His mother was first generation Italian..Loved her too. I was the only one she ever gave her recipe for Lasagna to. But she made me promise I would never tell anyone else.. It is magnificent..Now my daughter knows how to make it...
I use to make it so much the recipe never got written down cause I never figured I'd forget...but alas, I lived too long, should have written it down...When my daughter first made it, she called and said it didn't taste right, I had to go over and taste it to see what what missing.. It has been perfected once again...:O)