Among people interested in emigration we would like to introduce the research done by a Piemontese woman in the years 1989-1990. Her name is Mariagrazia Alliaudi and she lives in Pinerolo (province of Turin, Piedmont, North of Italy).

She wrote a thesis about the “Features of the Piedmontese Emigration to the United Stated of America” that had very good results at the University of Turin.

This work describes some Piedmontese communities that, at the end of the 19^th century, left Piedmont, went to the States and it talks about their difficult settlement in the new Country.  The main communities studied are the miners from Canavese, who worked in the mines of Wisconsin and Minnesota, the farmers from Cercenasco to the Galveston County in Texas, the Waldensians to North Carolina, the weavers from Biellese to New Jersey, the winemakers of California, and some others.

This survey follows the main steps of the making up of each community to North America and points out how Piedmontese customs, traditions and language have survived.

The detachment from the origin village has been only geographical, never affective!

For further details, if you are interested, please contact this web site.