My interest in my family history lies largely in my great grandfather, Amelio Venturini. He was born in 1912, and he lived to be 101 years old. He is obviously of Italian descent, and he lived there until WWII when he came to a better life either in refuge or in search of a better life (or both?). All the stories he used to tell when we were kids were fascinating, and Id love to know more about his family back in Italy and everything about them. Just writing this blog post and thinking about this has made me want to go back and learn more about him and put the pieces together, so I think I’m going to shoot my grandma a text about him.