Clemente Suardi is a professional genealogist with more than 25 years’ experience in reconstructing family histories. Working as an independent professional, he has served both private clients and companies, law firms and notaries in Italy and abroad, and he is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (United States). He researches across every Italian region — from the Alps to Sicily — and in neighbouring Switzerland, directly from original civil, parish (including Latin) and notarial records, and reports his findings clearly in English.
His work spans documented family-history research; Italian citizenship by descent (jure sanguinis); transcription and translation of historical records; and property, cadastral, forensic and heir research. Alongside client work he has taught family-history courses and lectured at educational seminars. Over the years he has completed more than 500 family-history research projects — each documented act by act, every fact drawn from a source and cited.
Credentials & recognition
- More than 25 years of professional practice in genealogical research.
- Founder (2007) and, for fifteen years, President of the Associazione Genealogica Lombarda.
- Member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG).
- Speaker at national and international genealogy conferences — among them the National Conference on Family History (IAGI, Bologna), the International Colloquium of Genealogy (Institut International d’Études Généalogiques, Bologna), a conference at the Ancêtres Italiens association in Paris, and the State Archive of Bergamo.
- Organiser of numerous courses — both introductory genealogy and advanced research methodology.
- Since 2005, retained by legal and probate-genealogy firms in Europe and North America to identify heirs to estates.
- Selected project: genealogical research for the Comune of Nembro (2023) for a publication on Mauro Pellicioli, restorer of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper — including the family tree I reconstructed.
Languages
Italian (native), English and French, with the ability to read Latin and nineteenth-century Italian handwriting (paleography) — the skills the old records actually require.