In fact, the new American first lady has Sicilian origins, specifically from a small town near Messina. Jill Biden, her surname is actually Jill Jacobs. Jacobs comes from an Italian surname, Giacoppo. In fact, the grandfather of the first lady who comes from Gesso in Sicily, at the beginning of 1900, landed in America.
After a few years in America, Domenico Giacoppo decided to Americanize the name in Jacobs, to make it easier to pronounce in the states. In addition, in the early 1900s, there was still racism against Italians who came from the poorest areas of the Italian peninsula, such as Sicily, Calabria, Puglia and Campania. For this reason, the Italian surname was changed to Jacobs.
The grandfather of the first lady to be precise embarked on May 19, 1900, on the ship “Patria” departing from Naples. Together with his mother Angela Caruso and three other brothers Antonio, Natalina and Giovanna, respectively 11, 8 and 5 years old, to reach the head of the family Placido Giacoppo and start the American dream.