Hi Tom Go to my family website http://www.dellarocchetta.com/ and on the favorite links page there is a site than can find most towns in Italy and Bore is there. When you get there and into the Google search type in Bore Italy Histoey. Google has many sites that amy be od some help and some are worthless. Also go to the Italian & Surname Navigator click on Italy type your last name of interest. Also there is a site on the links page that can tell you where that names lives today in Italy also there is the best phonebook for Italy there. I hope this helps you Ciao Steve JunkMail8ox@aol.com wrote: > Hello, > > I'm researching the town of origin for my family line of the FERRARI and > BERNI names with the focus around Parma. > Giovanni FERRARI (b.1865), father Antonio and mother Lucia FERRARI. And > Teresa BERNI (b.1870), father Antonio and mother Anna Maria or Maria RESTANI > (b.1830-1). Brother Antonio and Louis (liquor store owners in Brooklyn). > Giovanni, a furrier, was in the US by 1887, they were married in New York > City, 1 Feb 1891. > I have some reason to believe the town may be Bardi, or a nearby one. I was > given the oral history information that the town name was Bari. However, I > choose to begin with the assumption that the Bari memory had been corrupted. > Since so many FERRARI and BERNIs originate from Northern Italy (not Bari), a > preliminary search showed there to be a very high concentration of > FERRARI/BERNI names in Bardi. Not Bari. > Then there's Bore also. > > Does anyone know the history of a town named Bore, near Bardi in the North? > I have seen it on one map and no information comes up on the Internet. > How about Barge, Badi, Varsi, and other similar sounding names? > > I have researched the DIRENZO and DIMUCCIO names, and others from Alife in > the Campania region back to 1680. I would like to achieve the same results > for these FERRARI and BERNI families. > Of course, all new information is of enormous value. > Thank you. > If I can be of any assistance through sharing information and my research > experience in Italy and in general, please let me know. > > Best Regards, > > Tom