09/03/2026
What is in a last name?
Surname
Family name?
Piffaretti is how my original last name was spelled before we moved across the Atlantic, late 1800s , early 1900s
From the Lake Cuomo
Bergamo region of Italy
Plus places in Croatia
Maybe even Viking country
Maybe even Finland, Switzerland and Spain? Maybe also Mongolia?!
Maybe descendants of the /1lluminate/ family Prefeti?
Maybe related to the Yugoslavs came to Merrillville Indiana from Transylvania.
I don't claim to KNOW
what I do know are two family names that
Were my neighbors at 792 Windsor
My Allodial title
And lo and behold
SURPRISE SURPRISE
THE SAME NAMES ARE NEIGHBORS HERE
HOW QUAINT
H8W COLLOQUIAL
HOW SWEET
