Search any Italian surname and the map answers on two separate planes. The verified layer counts households documented in Marina Martello's research corpus across Veneto, Lombardia, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto Adige — for example, the surname Antoniazzi returns 118 verified household units concentrated in Veneto with a secondary presence in Lombardia; Forest documents the Pordenone area of Friuli Venezia Giulia; Marighetti appears in the Trentino corpus. The index layer reports presence in aggregated public historical indexes, useful for orientation and always requiring archival confirmation. On-site field research extends as far as Umbria and beyond; Umbrian surname examples join this page as they are verified in the house register. The verified layer's deepest coverage lies in Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia (Pordenone area) and Lombardia.
A surname on a map is a clue, not a conclusion. Indexes and directories show where a name appears in historical records; they cannot prove that two bearers of a surname are related, nor identify your specific line. Only document-by-document verification in the original archives — parish registers, civil records, notarial files — turns a geographic hint into a documented lineage. The verified layer of this map is built from Marina Martello's research corpus across Veneto, Lombardia, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto Adige, with on-site field research extending as far as Umbria and deepest coverage in Veneto, the Pordenone area and Lombardia. Online tools stop where the archive begins: this map shows where to look, not what you will find.
A map tells you where a name lived. Only the archives can tell you who your family was. → See how on-site research closes that gap · If you already hold certificates, parish letters or old family papers, send them to me. I read every document personally and reply in writing: what your papers prove, what they cannot prove, and which archive holds the next answer. No calls, no pressure — a written assessment you can keep and reread.
From the house register: the surname Finato appears across Padova, Treviso and Vicenza in Veneto and across the border in Pordenone — one name, four provincial archives, four separate paper trails to reconcile. That reconciliation is the job.