What was the ancestry (lineage) of Frank Zappa? Jew, greek, italian?

Question:

What was the ancestry (lineage) of Frank Zappa? Jew, greek, italian?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: This is what he says in his autobiography:
"My ancestry is Sicilian, Greek, Arab, and French. My mother's mother was French and Sicilian, and her dad was Italian (from Naples). The Greek-Arab side is is from my Dad. He was born in a Sicilian village called Partinico..."

Therefore, his arab side was probably kind of distant and maybe even just assumed. From what I've read, his father family was mainly of greek sicilian lineage. I don't even think he was half Arab, it was probably a distant thing. After all, he was supposedely Greek-Arab, but was born in a sicilian village and had a Sicilian sounding name, Zappola.

The first answerer was correct in that he was born to Francis Vincent Zappa and Rose Marie Colimore in Baltimore Maryland on December 21, 1940.

Parents

2 Francis Vincent Zappa, b. Partinico, Sicily, 7 May 1905, d. Los Angeles, Cal., 7 April 1973 [SSDI 212-16-0475]
m. ... 1939
3 Rose Marie Colimore, b. Baltimore, Md., 7 June 1912, d. ... , Cal., 30 Jan. 2004 [SSDI 212-07-9161]