Tag: #research
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How DNA can lead you to Lucca
How can a DNA test look at a sample and point to something as specific as a province, valley, or local community? I did the digging, and here’s what I figured out. Family historians know the satisfaction of watching evidence slowly arrange itself into a coherent picture: a baptism here, a marriage there, a familiar…
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Mapping a Surname: A How-To Guide, using the Domenici families of Bagni di Lucca as an example
Every genealogy project starts with a question. Mine began with a woman who carried the surname Domenici, and lived in San Cassiano di Controne in Bagni di Lucca, in the early 1800s. Yet, she was not born in San Cassiano – she had married into the village from surrounding villages, and little information was known about…