Where our ancestors lived in Italy
Marchisa ancestors, (including Saglio, Lombardi, Zola, and Ferraris), were part of the large European immigration wave that left Europe from 1890 through the early 1910s.
The families came from the following places in the Piedmonte Region of Northern Italy:

The port towns our ancestors left from
Almost of of our Italian ancestors left Italy from the ports of

Tom Marchisa Genealogy Trips
June 2016
Tom Marchisa traveled to Italy researching Marchisa and Anzino ancestry and visited:

  • Genoa
  • Torino
  • Mercenasco
  • Mazze
  • Fubine
  • Quattordio
  • Roma

Click here or the photo on the right to see details and photo galleries.

May-June 2018
Tom Marchisa traveled to Italy researching Marchisa and Anzino ancestry and visited:.

  • Torino
  • Fubine
  • Montemagno
  • Quattordio
  • Orte
  • Roma
  • Seina
  • Mazze
  • Milano

Click here or the photo on the right to see details and photo galleries.

Monsignor Valerio Anzino
A significant part of the Marchisa extended family genealogy effort has been spent on researching Valerio Anzino. Valerio was a first cousin of Francesca Gotta, Frank Marchisa’s grandmother. In short, Valerio, (1832 – 1899), was a very historically important person in Italy. In addition to online research in the US, Tom Marchisa traveled to Italy in 2016 and 2018 conducting “on-the-ground” research to flesh out the specifics of Valerio’s life. That research resulted in the development of a website devoted to Valerio. Access the website
Family Tree
Ancestry.com website
There is currently only one way to view Marchisa ancestry in it’s entirety and that’s by accessing the Marchisa-Toman tree in Ancestry.com .

  • Ancestry.com is the “book-of-record” source for the Marchisa-Toman family tree.
  • Ancestry.com contains viewable original documents such as Grandpa Alessandro Marchisa’s Civil birth record from Fubine, Italy. (Click on image to the right) These records are attached to the profiles of the people in the tree.
  • To help guide you through Ancestry.com, open the Ancestry.com Help File in a separate browser tab. Keep that browser tab open to help you when using Ancestry.com
  • Login to Ancestry.com with Username = marchisatoman and Password = Newzealand5633!! (Username and Password are both all lowercase)
Flavio Alessandro Marchisa Birth Record