Martinucci DNA saga

So some excellent results from my brother Todd's DNA test. He matches someone with ancestors from a town called Villa De Chiavenna, Italy. I had already identified this town as a possible origination point for my Martin(ucci) surname.

I also revisited an older site http://photohistory-sussex.co.uk/BTN-Lombardi.htm which points to a photographer named Eugenio Lombardi Martinucci (1849-1920). He is also for Chiavenna and bears a striking resemblance to my father.

I contacted the owner of that site, and he said he would try and reach the Martinucci descendants for me.

I was able to contact the Maraffio from Chiavenna.  He did not know much about genealogy, but his sister in law is a Mormon and is supposedly working on the family tree. I am also trying to conatct her.

I also tried running a search on my matches for people born in Chiavenna, and I was able to pull up one family from there Panzeri. This match was also a match to my cousin, who is descended from my Italian Grandfather. This is a good lead.

It sounds like a trip to Chiavenna is in order in the coming years. It is nearby to Andermatt and my mother's grandmother's home so I can do research there as well on the REGLI family.

This adds more surnames to my search including PANZERI, GINI, NYE, DOLLIMORE,  and TAYLOR, MARAFFIO,

I have been busy entering this information into familysearch and wikitree.org and I am actually going to write a little about those sites and findagrave right now.