Exploring Stories That Shape Our Past…
Welcome to my Family and Local History Homepage!
Whether you’re digging into your family tree or looking into the history of a specific place, you’re in the right spot. Here, I connect the dots between the past and present — sharing my endeavors in researching my own family history and one-place studies, as well as resources, tools, and tips to help you uncover the history of people and places that matter most to you! From personal genealogies to one-place studies (a deep dive into the history of a single area), this is where history gets personal.
A note before you get started — everything I have created, catalogued, and put together here, including for all of my one-place studies, is absolutely free for your viewing pleasure. I only ask that if you use anything you’ve found here, you properly cite/credit me for my efforts. Finally, if you have family from or information about any of the areas I am researching, please reach out! I’d love to hear it.
Surnames
If it isn’t perhaps obvious by how different they are, the surnames marked below with an asterisk (*) are those of my daughter’s ancestors through her father, but not my own. However, I research them all just the same — my husband’s with seemingly even more luck than mine!
The following is a carefully curated selection of surnames I am researching:
- Agostinis | San Giorgio della Richinvelda, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- *Anderson | Denmark (unk – c. 1887) and Utah, United States (c. 1887 – current)
- Antunes/Antinuz
- Barbon | Venice, Veneto, Italy
- *Beal
- Bertuzzi | San Giorgio della Richinvelda, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- Bocalandra | Italy
- Bovo | Scorze, Venice, Veneto, Italy
- Brindisi/Brindesi | Sant’Arcangelo, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy
- Calderon | Pasiano di Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- Castilio
- Chivilo | San Giorgio della Richinvelda, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- *(Andrew) Christensen | Denmark
- *(Christian) Christensen | Denmakr
- *Clark
- Codato | Venice, Veneto, Italy
- Contrera
- Correa de Mirapalhete
- *Dahlson | Denmark
- D’Arelli/Darelli | Sant’Arcangelo, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy
- D’Avila/ de Avila
- D’Azevedo
- Da Silva
- De Souza
- De Zorzi | San Giorgio della Richinvelda, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- Di Muzio | Sant’Arcangelo, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy
- Fagundez
- Favaro | Zero Branco, Treviso, Veneto, Italy
- Filipuzzi | San Giorgio della Richinvelda, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- Francucci | Macerata, Marche, Italy
- Furlan | Pasiano di Pordenone, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- Goncalves
- *Hilton
- *Jones | Cache, Utah, United States
- *Larsen/Lorsen | Norway (unk – c. 1871)
- Lenarduzzi | San Giorgio della Richinvelda, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- Litavini | Italy
- Machado
- Marcon | San Giorgio della Richinvelda, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- Mariani | Macerata, Marche, Italy
- Monachesi | Italy
- Montecchiari | Macerata, Marche, Italy
- Moricio/Morisio
- Muzzio/Mussi | Aliforni, San Severino Marche, Macerata, Marche, Italy
- Pagnanelli | Italy
- Pasquin/Pasquini | San Giorgio della Richinvelda, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- Perisin/Perrissin | San Giorgio della Richinvelda, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- Pinto
- Pirez
- Pizzato | Zero Branco, Treviso, Veneto, Italy
- Rossetti | Aliforni, San Severino Marche, Macerata, Marche, Italy
- Ruffini | Macerata, Marche, Italy
- Santagata | Sant’Arcangelo, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy
- Scattulini | Scorze, Venice, Veneto, Italy
- Sedran | San Giorgio della Richinvelda, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- *Stewart | Linlithgowshire, Scotland, United Kingdom (1828-1853) and Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States (1853-1905)
- Tapia
- Teixeira
- Tesan | San Giorgio della Richinvelda, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- *Thomas | Oneida, Idaho, United States
- Tomassini | Macerata, Marche, Italy
- Varola | Bagnarola, Sesto al Reghena, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- Veloz
- Viticel/Vitizel
- *Williams
- Zitarosa | Sant’Arcangelo, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy