The history of northern Italy in the mid-1800's is complex and has a direct influence on the way we research our Beorchia family. Much of the records center around Maniago, a city in the province of Udine. We would consider Udine a county.
Opa's father, Pietro Enrico Beorchia, was born in Maniago, Udine, Italy on 24 March 1877. Udine was a province in Austria from 1815-1866. When Pietro was born, Udine had been a city in Italy for 11 short years. As we continue to research northern Italy, we may find that we look for records in Austria!
(http://www.friulinprin.beniculturali.it/inglese/ricerca.html).
In 2006, I contacted the city of Maniago, asking for any record of the Beorchia family in the area. Our kind friends in Italy sent this lovely document, a starting point for our family research. I have left off some of the second page as it is bad family history manners to post dates for the living. Email me and I'll send you the full PDF.
This research is difficult because databases are organized by country, province and city. As the cities are exchanged between different countries, the history of the place becomes very important. When I started researching Regina Fabbro, I learned that Fiume no longer exists, and is now a town called Rijeka in Croatia (time for a family vacation!).
I ran across another problem today while trying to find information about the death place of Pietro, Wyhlen. There are no databases containing any information from a city of this name and I did not know if it was in Austria, Italy, Switzerland, or Germany. I contacted Sarah today and she says: "Today 'Wyhlen' is no city on it's own it's a part of bigger one. But it was always on the German side of the borders to France and Switzerland. The bigger city is called 'Grenzach'. So now together it's called 'Grenzach-Wyhlen'."
Thanks, Sarah! Hopefully, next weeks search will be a bit easier with this information.
Opa's father, Pietro Enrico Beorchia, was born in Maniago, Udine, Italy on 24 March 1877. Udine was a province in Austria from 1815-1866. When Pietro was born, Udine had been a city in Italy for 11 short years. As we continue to research northern Italy, we may find that we look for records in Austria!
(http://www.friulinprin.beniculturali.it/inglese/ricerca.html).
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I ran across another problem today while trying to find information about the death place of Pietro, Wyhlen. There are no databases containing any information from a city of this name and I did not know if it was in Austria, Italy, Switzerland, or Germany. I contacted Sarah today and she says: "Today 'Wyhlen' is no city on it's own it's a part of bigger one. But it was always on the German side of the borders to France and Switzerland. The bigger city is called 'Grenzach'. So now together it's called 'Grenzach-Wyhlen'."
Thanks, Sarah! Hopefully, next weeks search will be a bit easier with this information.
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