Rendena Research is a lifetime personal research project of James Caola, 2nd generation descendant of the Val Rendena (valley) in Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.

What makes research this unique?
Today, ancestral research data is found in many places such as Ancestry.com. What makes this research different is that it is interlinked and checked amongst the following 3 datasets:

Database 1 is derived records preserved by the parishes of the valley from as early as 1507 through 1923. Database 2 are reconstructed genealogical lineages for individual families. Database 3 is an historical visual database documenting the cemeteries of the valley as they exist today, including the anagraphical data abstracted from them.

The relative stability of the population over centuries and the number and quality of extant records for all classes of people living in the valley provides a unique opportunity for researchers with a variety of interests to examine the evolution of a people over centuries. Click here for more about the research.

Cemeteries of Val Rendena DVD Available [databases 2, 3]

This DVD is a photographic inventory of marked graves and tombstones in cemeteries of the upper Rendena Valley. It provides additional data gleaned for the most part from microfilm of the actual baptism records of the four parishes involved.

The data are recorded in the indices, and the information provided on the grave markers can be observed visually by the user of this DVD. Thus, a researcher can refer to the evidence provided by the gravestone as well as the data abstracted from the church records. Available in English or Italian.

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