I refer to the article ‘Why most Maltese share the same 100 surnames’ (The Sunday Times of Malta, February 9). What Mario Cassar failed to mention is that the majority of Maltese surnames are Italian and Sicilian, which, one can say, is where the Maltese roots lie.

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