Ricca-Quarelli Genealogy, 2015

This collection houses genealogical charts, research correspondence, personal correspondence exchanged between members of the Ricca and Quarelli families, Italian and American vital records, immigration records, photographs, and other materials created and accumulated by Mary Margaret Peggy (Dougherty) Fleming, Tomasso and Clotilde Quarelli’s granddaughter, during the course of her research into the genealogy of the Ricca and Quarelli families. These records document the family’s origins in Rivara, Torino, Italy; migration to the United States; personal relationships; daily lives and activities; employment; travel; and reunions between the 1880s and 2015.

Series I: Genealogical Research and Writings includes information about Italy’s Piedmont region (where the Ricca and Quarelli families originate), a genealogy of the Ricca and Quarielli families, notes, comments regarding the materials in the collection written by Peggy Fleming, photographs, and other materials pertaining to the Ricca and Quarelli families as a whole. The short version of the genealogy housed in Box 1, Folder 10 is available to researchers; the long version has been restricted until January 1, 2035 at the request of the donor in order to protect the privacy of living individuals.

Series II: Italian Trips and Gatherings consists of correspondence, photographs, and other materials documenting trips that Peggy Fleming took to Italy with her husband, Pat Fleming, and other family members in the 1990s and 2000s. Photographs and notes regarding Peggy Fleming’s first trip to Italy in 1955 are also included.

Series III: Italian Siblings and Series IV: American Siblings contain research into members of the extended Ricca and Quarelli families. Italian Siblings refers to Clotilde Ricca di Quarelli’s siblings; American Siblings refers to her children. Each folder in these two series documents one individual or nuclear family. Generally speaking, these folders contain a genealogical chart illustrating the person or family’s relationship to the extended Ricca and/or Quarelli families, an inventory of the materials in the folder, comments by Peggy Fleming highlighting items of particular interest, research correspondence, personal correspondence written by or addressed to the relevant person or family, vital records, immigration records, and photographs. Translations are available for many letters and documents written in Italian. Rose Quarelli’s folder (Box 3, Folder 2) also contains an oral history discussing Tomasso and Clotilde Quarelli’s immigration to the United States, the Quarelli store, and early life in Winkelman.

Series V: Family Reunions houses correspondence, photographs, publications, and other materials documenting Ricca-Quarelli family reunions held in Arizona and Texas between 1980 and 2006. Series VI: Restricted Materials and Series VII: Oversized Materials contain restricted and oversized materials removed from Series I-Series V.