Actually, I did! I found birth records as far back as the 17th century and could have gone further, but I felt guilty having the priest lug up those huge baptismal logs from their basement....

I originally went there in my process of trying to get Italian citizenship by "jure sanguinis". But, this is yet again, a story for another article lol ;)

Ironically, my biggest hurdles to this were in the USA, and not Italy....