I am trying to trace the pieri family who I believe originated from the barga area. In 2008 I visited the tourist office in barga where I was shown the archives of the family pieri. Unfortunately vincenzo Pieri who would be my great grandfather was not shown in the records. But his father paulo pieri was.(this was shown on his marriage certificate) it is possible that he changed his name when he came to the uk .There is an entry of pieri in the uk's 1881census which shows he was working for a John Alberti together with vettonio Alberti,Guiseppe Cavagnass' Luigi Daprato and Guiseppo Nardini also shown on the census and were all from Barga. I am assuming they all came over from Italy to work for John Alberti who was a Statue Manufacturer. Is there anyone who throw any more light on m,y search. The tourist office has suggested that I get my great grandfathers mothers maiden name but I have had no luck in this.