Corato, Puglia One Place Study

This profile is part of the Corato, Puglia One Place Study.

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Welcome

The Corato One Place Study was set up at Wikitree in September 2022 to serve a dual purpose:

- To help descendants of people who emigrated from Corato to retrace their ancestry, in particular through the use of genetic genealogy and of the 'X-friends' app, which was developed by Wikitreer Greg Clarke and made public in January 2023. By tracking the trajectories of X chromosomes, the ‘X-friends’ app aims to overcome the problems created by endogamy for genetic genealogy research: a myriad of cousins and namesakes existing in a town of 48,000 inhabitants, making it difficult to identify specific individuals and the families they belong to.

- To be the American component of a project entitled “A tale of two twinned cities: Corato and Grenoble“, developed by the French association Atelier Généalogique. This project aims to promote the writing of the history of migration from Corato by focusing on the “memory“ of migration, as illustrated in the testimony of families who experienced the migration of some of their members.

In fulfilling its dual purpose, the project relies to a large extent on genetic genealogy research for the identification of people who emigrated. This research (since 2016) has resulted in the creation of a specific family tree (entitled albero genealogico coratino) containing (in May 2023) 25,000 inter-connected people, of whom about 85% originated from Corato. This family tree is backed up by a database containing more than 20,000 photos of authentic records.

Throughout 2022, the development of the ‘X-friends’ app made use of gedcoms extracted from this large family tree in order to identify potential X-matches both upwards from a ‘root person’ to ‘terminal ancestors’ ; and downwards, towards living descendants who are potential carriers of the same X-chromosomes as the 'root person'. The ‘root person’ need not have taken a DNA test. It is hoped that other One Place Studies at Wikitree will make use of this app, to which end the Corato One Place Study will record its own experimentation with the app (see the ‘open space’ and GSG posts below).

The need to access primary resources is the common factor between the two aims of the project. With this in mind, we support the principle of digitisation by volunteers of certain documents and registers that may be in a poor condition in existing archives.

Ultimately, it is hoped that the project’s contribution to the writing of the history of migration from Corato will provide objective evidence of what immigrants bring to the socio-economic and cultural development of the destination countries, at the same time as evaluating the impact of migration on the place of origin.

The project is supported by a scientific monitoring committee composed of Italian and French historians, and was instrumental in the setting up in Bari in March 2023 of an international database on migration from the southern Italian region of Puglia (see photo).

Become a Member

Will you join me? Please post a comment here on this page, in G2G using the project tag, or send me a private message. Thanks!

Goals

Recording experimentation with the X-friends app
A base in the US for the genetic genealogy research, DNA tests being illegal in France
Recording progress with the Genealogy/History project involving Corato and Grenoble
Reflecting the reality of the emigration from Corato as a worldwide phenomenon (including the formation of transnational families).

Corato One Place Study Discussions

Aug 29th 2019: Who has experience of tracking x-chromosome trajectories and/or endogamy?
Feb 17th 2022: X-Match Identification Tools proposed next step
Dec 21st 2022: Call for volunteers to enter profiles during the 2023 Connect-a-thon to help fine-tune Greg Clarke’s X-friends app
April 6th 2023: What became of African-American GI Cornelius Lynn and Maria Nuovo from Corato after they returned to Kentucky?
April 8th 2023: Corato One Place Study needs Connect-a-Thon volunteers to enter profiles for X-friends app experiment
April 9th 2023: Corato One Place Study : further experimentation with the Wikitree X-friends app
April 11th 2023: Note on entering profiles for the Corato One Place Study during the April 2023 Connect-a-Thon

Corato, Bari, Puglia, Italy

"Corato is a town in the province of Bari, placed in the cradle of the Murge (hills), muffled by an apparently poor and barren landscape, characterized by dry walls, old sheep tracks, trulli (small round houses built of stones, with a conical roof), jazzi, and farms, which are an attraction for a rural tourism." ^[1]

"Situated at less than 50 km from Bari, the accessibility to Corato is granted by the provincial road from Andria, Ruvo and Trani and of course by the A14 motorway." ^[1]

"The town boasts the preservation of a medieval historical centre, even if its origins seem to be more ancient (prior to the medieval period)." ^[1]

Geography

Continent: Europe

Country: Italy

Region: Puglia

Province: Bari

GPS Coordinates: 41.15, 16.4

Elevation: 234.0 m or 767.7 feet

Population

The population of Corato was officially 48,313 in 2017.

Documents

Sources

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Ferri, Simona and Piccarreta, Mario. "The Town of Quarat." April 30, 2023, pp 1-6. (See the attached pdf for further details).

Acknowledgements

Thank you to James Smith for starting the Corato One Place Study.
I’m (James Smith) grateful to the following people who have made contributions to this Corato One Place Study : first of all to Azure Robinson for setting it up in September 2022. Initially, it was working in 2021 with Gina Tarantini , Leslie Salvagione Edwards and Carl Scaringelli that led to the idea of a Corato One Place Study. Then, by exchanging with Peter Roberts , I got to know Greg Clarke, whom I helped to develop the ‘X-friends app’. Then, under the captaincy of Chris Ferraiolo , I was accepted on Team Italy for the Jan 2023 and April 2023 Connect-a-thons. It was during these events that I met Caroline Verworn and Morgana Patrocinio Costa , who both gave generous help with entering profiles. A very special thanks to Greg and Caroline for ‘coaching’ me on Wikitree and Discord methodology. Caroline has drafted some very simple-to-use instructions for entering profiles on Wikitree :