Robert, Where in Italy & Croatia are your ancestors from? My husband's ancestors are from Canton Ticino & Dalmatia. Sharon Kern Co. In a message dated 4/19/2014 3:46:52 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, thebudstwo@sbcglobal.net writes: My father’s family members came to Amador County and San Jose and Hollister area from the 1850s on. They are of Italian and Austrian (Croatian) descent. My mother’s family are all from other parts of the country, more recently (1800s and 1900s), Arizona, Utah and Ohio and before that, the south.