Finding connection between to Marini's
Research help.
I have been researching two family trees to see where there is a connection. The connection should not be that far back but so far no luck. I did find a name in both trees (several generations farther back than I was looking) and about 50 years apart, but I have been unable to tie them together. I was hoping someone here might be able to tell me how to do it easier (I have looked through a lot of records and trees but nothing).
The names are Caterina Marini 1799-1844 (married to Lorenzo Callegari 1790-1863) and Dionisia Marini 1746-1811 (married to Beneditto Randolfi 1754-1804).
Any ideas. Thanks.
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Thank you for responding Cousin Vinny. I am not sure there is a connection between these two people at this time. I am trying to find the connection between families. The Marini name shows up in both, so I thought maybe they are connected somehow and I am just missing it.
I am finding similiar or same names within one family in an area where the families are not related, even though same names. Trying to find connection is harder than I thought.
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Having a surname in common does not mean there is a relationship. Marini is one of the most common surnames in Italy:
https://www.cognomix.it/mappe-dei-cognomi-italiani/MARINI
It's like finding someone named Johnson in Seattle and another in Miami and trying to show they are connected.
Surnames in Italy first came into use in the 14th century and this surname was likely adapted from the Roman cognomen Marinus, meaning "from the sea".
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Thanks for the explanation. I was hoping it would be easier to find a link. My thought was to do both family trees and look for the same surnames. I did notice the distance but hoped I would find someone who had moved from one area to the other. Now I guess surnames is not going to be all that helpful unless unique.
I am still learning how to do all of this and I really appreciate your time and assistance. Please let me know if you have any insight on how to investigate ties between families.
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There are no shortcuts, and with Italian research unless you happen to be researching an Italian comune for which there are church records, you are going to come up against a hard stop when you reach the beginning of civil records (no earlier than 1800 in most of Italy, and for some areas of Italy they don't begin until the 1860s or 1870s).
The simple fact is that most families stayed in the same comune for many generations, possibly marrying someone in a nearby comune if their own comune was small. There just wasn't a whole lot of mobility.
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Which towns, and what sources? Have you found their respective marriage or death records?
The Ancestry trees I see for Dionisia Marini show her from Atina in Frosinone, while Osvaldo Callegari, the child of Caterina Marini and Lorenzo Callegari, was born and died in Selva in Belluno province, nearly 800 km away. Why do you think there might be a connection?
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