From southern Italy to America, generation by generation.
The story of the Martocci family: where the name comes from, the hills it left, the ocean it crossed, and every person who carries it forward. Built for the family, kept up to date automatically.
One name, two homelands, a century of stories
The public half of this site tells the shared story. The private half, for family members, holds the tree itself.
The Name
What Martocci means, its many spellings, and the truth about the coat of arms sold online.
Read more →The Homeland
Basilicata and the hill town of Laurenzana, where the Martoccia name is the most common surname.
Read more →The Journey
From the Kingdom of Naples to Ellis Island: the history that moved the family across an ocean.
Read more →Research Guide
How to find your own Italian and American records: Antenati, passenger lists, naturalization, census, DNA.
Read more →A family tree that keeps itself current
Every new export from Ancestry.com runs through a matching engine that compares names (Giuseppe and Joseph count as one name, Martocci and Martoccio as one surname), dates, places, parents, spouses and children before anything changes. Strong matches merge on their own. Uncertain ones wait for a family editor, and conflicting facts are never overwritten.
Ask the Family Historian
Members can talk to an AI historian that reads the live tree. Ask "How was Rocco related to Canio?", "Who came through Ellis Island?" or "What records would tell us more about our great-grandmother?" It looks everything up, cites what it finds, and says so when the tree doesn't know.
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