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Lost crest in Italy?

On my visit to Piacenza I searched for this armorial unsuccessfuly.

I was told that I was in the centre of the Douglas Scotti area of the city and that there were lots of family palaces - but that did not help!

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Comment by William Douglas 30 minutes ago

Castello di Rivalta was on my list, but we did not make it.  I needed a full week, but the family had other priorities!

I have yet to write an article about where we did get to.

Comment by J Ruaidri Douglas 13 hours ago

William, I hope you made it to Castello di Rivalta?

Comment by William Douglas yesterday

Thank you; good find

I got close, but not close enough!

Comment by Ronald Drysdale on Friday

Palazzo Scotti da Fombio, Piacenza

Creative commons license details here

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palazzo_Scotti_da_Fombio,_P...

Best regards

Comment by Ronald Drysdale on Friday

Hi William,

After 3 iterations of Google image search I think this is it:

https://www.polo-piacenza.polimi.it/en/students/campuses-and-servic...

The Collegio Morigi of Piacenza

Best regards

Making conections

The more information you can give about the people you mention, the more chance there is of someone else connecting with your family.

Dates and places of births, deaths and marriages all help to place families.

Professions also help.

'My great-grandmother mother was a Douglas from Montrose' does not give many clues to follow up! But a bit of flesh on the bones makes further research possible. But if we are told who she married, what his profession was and where the children were baptised, then we can get to work.

Maybe it is time to update the information in your profile?


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