Today in our history
1889
View full timelineA letter leaves Collecorvino
The 1889 letter preserved in our archive was written in the family's Abruzzo town.
Our Heritage. Our Legacy. Our Family.
Preserving the memory of those who came before us, and inspiring those who will follow.
The Family Estate
Eight rooms of memory, open to the family
Family Tree
Six generations, branch by branch
The Archive
Documents, letters & records
The Chronicle
Our story through the centuries
The Library
Books, manuscripts & research
Maps
Migrations and places of origin
Gallery
Photographs and portraits
Community
The living family, gathered
The Vault
Private papers, held in trust
Welcome Home
The Cocchini Family
This house holds what has survived of us: civil acts and identity papers, a letter carried from Collecorvino, photographs whose sitters we are still naming. Around those certainties we have built a working reconstruction — clearly marked as such — so that the family can see the shape of the whole while the proof is gathered.
Memoria Custoditur. Veritas Quaeritur. Legatum Permanet.
About our mission
Recent discovery
New letter from Collecorvino, 1889
Four pages in a familiar hand, still folded along its original creases.
Latest from the Archive
Recently catalogued family materials
Atto di Stato Civile, 1811
Civil register act bearing the signature of Vincenzo Alessandro Cocchini
Verified
Carta d'Identità, 1928
Repubblica Italiana identity card issued to a family member
Verified
The Cocchini Family Album, Italia 1870–1920
Album page of mounted photographic portraits
Documented
Tessera d'Identità — Eugenio Cocchini
Identity booklet of Eugenio Cocchini, b. 1880, Collecorvino
Verified
Our Journey Through Time
Five waypoints across six centuries
- 1494Florence
- 1517Tuscany
- 1634Adriatic Coast
- 1849Abruzzo
- 1900+America
Our Family. Our Community.
The archive is only half of the house. The other half is the living family who keep it.