Livorno Gen[ealogy]

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Baptism registers, 17th century — Many of the people who write to us from the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Australia or France arrive with the same question: “My great-grandfather was Tuscan. How can I find out where he came from?” Often they have a name, a surname spelled in several different ways, perhaps a photograph […]

How to trace your Tuscan ancestors from abroad: a practical ...

November 2, 2026 in Genealogical Culture / Techniques by Matteo Giunti

Dall’immagine all’identità/4: Ritratto del piccolo Guibert per lo zio Polidoro — “A mon oncle Polydore. Henry Guibert.” (To my uncle Polydore, Henry Guibert). Images: Di Chiara collection, Rome. This article builds on our previous article on the Guibert family. A few weeks after that first article, our friend the collector Mario Di Chiara tracked down the Bartolena studio photograph shown above […]

From image to identity/4: Portrait of the young Guibert for ...

January 31, 2023 in Genealogies / Techniques by Matteo Giunti

Dall’immagine all’identità/3 – “Sofia e Ida Kauffmann, Livorno, 1881” — Introduction by Mario Di Chiara, historical and genealogical research by Matteo Giunti. For a general introduction, see the first “episode” of this series: From image to identity/1 – The Recouly-Roux and Vernière families in Livorno. INTRODUCTION The author of this photograph, Ugo Bettini, had been the most respected professional photographer […]

From image to identity/3 – “Sofia and Ida Kauffmann, Livorno, ...

January 27, 2023 in Cemeteries / Genealogies / Techniques by Matteo Giunti

Introduction by Mario Di Chiara, historical and genealogical research by Matteo Giunti. For a general introduction, see the first “episode” of this series: From image to identity/1 – The Recouly-Roux and Vernière families in Livorno. The recent discovery, in the Genoa area, of two nineteenth-century cartes de visite (cdv) from […]

From image to identity/2 – The Guibert family in Livorno

December 6, 2022 in Genealogies / Techniques by Matteo Giunti

Giacomo Lumbroso chi? — Prompted by the recent and interesting article by our friend Silvia Menicagli in WSI, we went back to the research carried out some time ago on the Modigliani, Garsin and related families, commissioned first by the collector Mario Di Chiara and then by the Institut Restellini. Back then, the Modigliani […]

Giacomo Lumbroso who?

September 25, 2021 in Genealogical Culture / Genealogies / Techniques by Matteo Giunti