“ These “relatives” never met their deceased relatives and its likely neither did their parents”
That’s a pretty dumb thing to say when one of the family members quoted had 2 uncles that died on the ship. Hard to believe his father never met either one of his own brothers. In fact that’s just goofy
Well for one I said, unlikely. More importantly young adults working on the Titanic in 1912, 111 years ago, (and their siblings) were (likely) born no later than the 1890s. Its possible that they were his father's siblings but as I said, unlikely.
said John Locascio, 69, whose uncles, Alberto and Sebastiano Peracchio, died in the tragedy.
John was born in 1954. Did his father have siblings born in the 1890s? Its possible but unlikely. There's most likely another generation in there. Those "uncles" were most likely "great uncles" i.e his grandfather's siblings. Whatever the case, this person had no more than an anecdotal knowledge of those men and their lives and certainly no personal relationship. He has every right to mourn them as he should, and so should we all. He just doesn't have any special standing in this debate.