Sources

Sources used

• Civil records (birth, marriage, death).
• Church records and parish books.
• Immigration lists and settlement documents.
• Certificates and citizenship process documentation.
• Family photo archive and preserved documents.
• Oral memory and family notes (always identified as such).

Editorial method

1. Prioritize primary evidence whenever available.
2. Preserve spelling variants without erasing historical forms.
3. Mark uncertainty about date, place, or kinship explicitly.
4. Revisit older entries as new sources are added.

How to contribute

If you have verifiable documents, photographs, or accounts, share them through the site contact so they can be included with proper attribution.