Margherita Kaiser Parodi was born in Rome on 16th May 1897, to Giuseppe and Maria Orlando. His father was a Leghorn man of German origin, while his mother was the daughter of the well-known businessman and engineer Luigi Orlando. At the outbreak of war, in 1915, aged just 18, Margaret wanted to enlist as a…

Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi was born in Bologna on 25 April 1874, to Giuseppe, a wealthy landowner, and Annie Jameson, an Irishwoman and granddaughter of the founder of the well-known Jameson&Son distillery. He spent his childhood in the family villa near Sasso Marconi (BO), where he received a mainly private, occasional and highly experimental education.…

Mi chiamo Angelo Gallardi, vivo in Argentina e come molti altri discendenti di immigrati, il mio interesse per la genealogia si è risvegliato raccogliendo i documenti per la cittadinanza italiana, poco più di 4 anni fa. L’interesse non si è fermato a quei documenti e partendo da un piccolo e limitato albero che ho fatto…

Assunta Adelaide Luigia Saltarini Modotti, known as Tina, was born on 17th August 1896 in Udine into a large family of very modest circumstances. In 1905, his father, Giuseppe, emigrated to the United States in search of fortune. For this reason, at the age of twelve, Tina was forced to work as a labourer in…

Leopoldo Cassese was born in Atripalda (AV) on 20th January 1901. After graduating in Literature in 1925 from the Federico II University in Naples, he graduated from the School for Archivists and Paleographical Librarians in Florence, where he was a pupil of Luigi Schiaparelli, with whom he also collaborated on the Guida storica e bibliografica…