Introduction
The main nucleus of the research of Amelia Menesini’s history was, is and will be the construction of our family tree that we could build from the eighteenth century.
It begins with Giuseppe Menesini, fourth great-grandfather of Marcelo Castro Alves (Menesini), current representative of the family. The genealogical tree was not limited only to the direct grandfathers but also to understand their brothers and also the collateral lines that we could identify.
Let us try here to reconstruct a little of the historical panorama and we would like to make it clear that in this sense, like all science uses its own conventions, thus avoiding to return to the era of Adam and Eve, or to resort to our ape and progenitors in the Darwinian evolution of mankind. Thus we consider the origin of a Lineage, Strain or Family where the most remote documentary evidence and historical testimonies with mention are the same.
This work analyses the Menesini family from Pescia (Toscany/Italy) who immigrated and arrived in Brazil in 1891 and married the local traditional family named De Souza Castro from Iguape, Eldorado from the State of Parana (Brazil), who were descendants from Portugal.
As we have seen in other chapters of this research, our attention is directed in two directions. We must in fact distinguish the historical origin of the Menesini Family from the genealogical origin of the branch of Giuseppe Menesini who as we said we were able to evidence at the beginning of our family tree in the eighteenth century.
In our case, as the majority of the cases, that is, the branch and Family has different origins. We can safely identify the city of origin, Pescia, situated in the province of Pistoia (PT) [former Lucca (LU)], Toscany, Italy.