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Discover the place where your family story began.
Explore Real Places
Every comune and province, and the archives that hold their records.
Uncover Your Story
Which civil registers survive, and where the parish books begin.
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WHO IS ORSO?
Your guide to discovering, understanding, and preserving your Italian roots.
Orso helps you follow your family story backward through records and places — then carry its people, photographs, documents, memories, and stories forward for generations to come.
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Where did your family come from?
Maybe you know the comune. Maybe you only have a surname, a province, or something written on the back of a photograph. Give Orso the clues your family left behind and we'll help you start looking. Every place we've mapped tells you where its records are kept, which years survive, and what was lost.
Discover the places that shaped us.
FEATURED COMUNE
Napoli
Campania
Naples is not one place but a stack of them, and the Castellesi page for it starts where most family searches stop — with the nine towns the city absorbed in the space of two years, and what that did to the records.
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WEAR YOUR ROOTS
Carry that place with you.
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It started with two places.
OUR STORY
Armando & Emma's wedding
Emma & Armando
Castel Baronia · Nocera Inferiore
Emma came from Castel Baronia. Armando came from Nocera Inferiore. They carried those places to America — and their family carried them forward.
Castellesi was created to help other families keep that connection to their own places alive.
WHY THE NAME CASTELLESI?
Castellesi is what the people of Castel Baronia are called. Our name honors the small Irpinian comune our family came from — and the belief behind everything we make: Italian identity isn't just about a country. It's about the particular place your family called home.
Castellesi began with our place. Now we help you celebrate yours.
Every family has a story.
FAMILY STORIES
Ours began in Italy. Maybe yours did too.
Now, tell us yours.
TELL US YOUR STORY
Tell us the town, city or region your family is connected to — and the story behind it. We're always looking for new places to add to Castellesi.
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