Finding Aids

Title
Arman, Tognini family collection
Text
Arman, Tognini family collection [textual record]. -- 1888-[ca. 1930].
1 cm of textual records.

Guiseppina Tognini (spelled Fognini on some documents) was born in the Province of di Sondrio in Italy in 1888. She married miner Steven Arman of Tovo, Italy in Nanaimo in 1912.

Materials were collected for an exhibit at the Nanaimo District Museum by local author Lynne Bowen for a book on Italian immigrants to British Columbia.

Collection consists of birth, marriage, naturalization and other certificates and papers for Steven Arman and Guiseppina Tognini. Some of the documents are in Italian.

Title based on the contents of the collection.
Material is very fragile.
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