LivornoGen is the genealogical and archival research project of Matteo Giunti. Since 1999 we have been reconstructing family histories in Italy and abroad, working from original sources: parish registers, civil records, censuses, notarial deeds and State archives.

Before turning to genealogy, Matteo was an airline pilot in civil aviation. From that experience we have kept the method: precision, verification of every fact, and no conclusion without a document to support it.

Our sources

Over more than twenty-five years we have built a prosopographical database linking the family structures and the social and commercial networks of more than 160,000 people, together with indexes of parish registers, the 1841 Tuscan census and the other sources gathered on the Search for your family page. Livorno, the city of the Nations, taught us to follow Jewish, Protestant, Greek, Armenian and Catholic families wherever they went.

Research and outreach

• Founder in 2011 of the Livorno delle Nazioni association, devoted to the heritage of Livorno’s historic “Nations”
• Secretary of A.P.G.IT. – Associazione Professionale Genealogisti Italia (Italian Association of Professional Genealogists)
• Co-author, with Hélène Koehl, of the book La straordinaria storia di James Partridge, negoziante e collezionista inglese a Livorno, e il Taccuino delle Silhouette (sillabe)
• Editor of Un archivio di pietra. L’antico cimitero degli inglesi di Livorno
• Articles in the journal “Nuovi Studi Livornesi” and the history blog Leghorn Merchant Networks
• Conferences, including the First Tuscan Genealogy Conference (Livorno, May 2026)
• Genealogy courses in the public libraries of Pontedera, Cascina and Peccioli (Progetto Faro, Agenzia Formativa Itinera)

Several discoveries that came out of our research have been reported in the Italian and international press.

Collaborations