from Barbara Zanelli, Switzerland
Does anyone have any information on Gioachino Valenti from Pianezzo, Valle Morobbia, who left the valley around 1920-25 for Stockton, California?
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from Barbara Zanelli, Switzerland
Does anyone have any information on Gioachino Valenti from Pianezzo, Valle Morobbia, who left the valley around 1920-25 for Stockton, California?
Have you looked in the online Swiss phonebook (http://tel.search.ch/index.en.html) to see if you find any familiar-sounding first names?
The name “Valenti” is not all that common, so you might be in some luck. There are some 51 “Valenti” listed in the Canton of Ticino, though none in Pianezzo these days, and seemingly none in the rest of Valle Morobbia. BUT there are at least 6 Valenti (in 5 households: Antenore; Caterina and Daniela; Francesca; Liana; Rosario) in Giubiasco, at the mouth of the valley and just down the hill from Pianezzo, and 6 households (Cristina and Ivan; Giorgio and Francesca; Marco; Maria Pia; Renata and Renzo, Rosangela) in Bellinzona, the capital city which is immediately north of Giubiasco. Might be worth a letter to those, to see if they are related?
Good luck!