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Eva (Campbell) Wolf and son Doug have finally arrived at Scogna Superiore, the home town of Eva's mother Maria. It lies among the beautiful mountains southeast of Genoa, just inland from La Spezia.
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This group of houses constitutes the center of Scogna Superiore. Maria's family, the Martinellis, lived well into the complex, up in the center back. It was a two story building; they kept animals in the ground level.
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This is the walkway we climbed to get to the Martinelli residence, which was still used by the family on a part-time basis. At the time we visited, the family lived mainly in Sesta Godano a couple of miles west of Scogna.
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Many of the walkways in Scogna were narrow, even medieval, in character. Here we are approaching Maria's former residence.
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Here Eva is discussing family history, in Italian, with a neighbor that runs a bed and breakfast in Scogna. If we had only known in advance, we could have stayed there. Notice the grape plantings along the steep walkway.
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Across the street from the complex of Scogna houses was the local Catholic Church. It was here that we came upon the burial site of many of the family ancestors. I photographed several of the well preserved vault markers, but ran short of film.
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We found Francesco Martinelli, Maria's uncle. It was an envelope from Francesco dated 1945 that contained the multiple postmarks that we followed from Rome, to Genoa, to La Spezia, to Sesta Godona, and finally to Scogna Superiore.
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There were a wealth of ancestors located here, many with legible photos. It is too bad that I ran out of film. That would not have happened in this digital age.