Roots Expert
Iuri Silvestri
Professional Genealogist specializing in Italian ancestry research
How they can help
- Remote research
- Heritage travel
- In person
- Researches in
- Italy
- Based in
- Italy · Veneto (inferred from Ca' Foscari University Venice connection)
- Languages
- English · Italian
- Time periods
- 14th century onwards
About
Professional genealogist with a classical education (History, Latin, Ancient Greek, Philosophy) from Ca' Foscari University in Venice. Offers ascendancy and descendancy research, document acquisition, translation, and heritage travel assistance throughout Italy.
Iuri Silvestri is a professional genealogist with a classical education including History, Latin, Ancient Greek, and Philosophy from Ca' Foscari University in Venice, where he specialized in History. During university, he conducted research projects on original 14th-century documents. He takes an integrative approach to genealogy, focusing on self-discovery through ancestry and honoring ancestors. He provides comprehensive genealogy research services throughout Italy, including ascendancy and descendancy research, document acquisition and translation, surname analysis, and assistance with heritage travel to reconnect clients with their Italian roots and living relatives.
Specialties
- Italian genealogy
- ascendancy research
- descendancy research
- Italian citizenship documentation
- surname etymology and analysis
- heritage travel
- document translation
- church and civil records
Additional credentials
Classical education in History, Latin, Ancient Greek, Philosophy; university research on 14th-century original documents
Venice, Italy
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