Evaristo Dante Pezzotti Salterucci

Italian-born great-grandfather (Miguel gen-3). Emigrated from Scalea (Cosenza, Calabria) to the Dominican Republic in the early 20th century. Married Irene Dolores Tejada Guzmán in Salcedo on 5 June 1915.

Subject of active research: 2026-05-24-pezzotti-cosenza-attack — Italian-side parents need primary documentary confirmation.

Family lore: pezzotti-emigration-annie-narration.

Names

• Birth name (per MyHeritage, S-005): Dante Serse Evaristo Pezzotti
• Used name in adult life (DR): Evaristo Dante Pezzotti Salterucci
• The DR-period reordering and reduction (dropping the middle "Serse") is a common Italian-immigrant adaptation. The DR-period addition of the maternal apellido (Salterucci) follows Hispanic naming convention; in Italy his civil name would have been Pezzotti only.
• MyHeritage also shows the variant spelling Salteruche / Salteruchè for the maternal apellido in DR-period records (phonetic Spanish-ization of the Italian Salterucci).

Parentage note

• Father: Biase Antonio Pezzotti — Italian original Biase (dialect form of Biagio, the Italian Blaise); the DR / Spanish form is Blas. Miguel: "Never heard him referred to as Biase, always Blas" — the Hispanicization happened on emigration.
• Mother: Rosa Maria Salterucci (b. 1854 Santa Maria d'Episcopio, Scalea). Married Biase 1870 Scalea.

Marriage 2 — Josefa María Collante

• Date / place: unknown (S-005).
• Children (Pezzotti Collante): Carmen Rosa Pezzotti Collante (later married Meek Hoare) — Miguel's half-great-aunt; lineage descendants in this branch unknown.
• Timing question: Was this marriage before or after Marriage 1? Evaristo died 12 May 1929. Scenarios: (a) Marriage 1 ended in widowhood or annulment before 1915 — less likely; Evaristo was only ~25 in 1910 and Italian-immigrant first marriages were rare that young abroad without a community. (b) Marriage 2 was an earlier marriage in Italy or in DR before he met Irene. (c) Parallel relationship or later widowing-and-remarriage — Irene outlived him to 1979, so this would require divorce, illegal in DR before 1937. (d) Marriage 2 is a tree-research error / different Evaristo. Open question; needs primary records.

Italian-side siblings (per S-005) — major data-quality flag

S-005 lists 4 siblings of Evaristo, with notably inconsistent maternal apellidos:

Rosa Maria Salterucci's own MyHeritage record-card lists only 2 children: Giuseppe Antonio and Evaristo Dante. The 3 with non-Salterucci maternal apellidos are not her children, consistent with Biase Antonio Pezzotti having multiple wives or relationships across his life — three additional Pezzotti unions with women surnamed Almanza, Sierra, and López. This is a substantial hypothesis to verify; alternatively the apellido-mismatch could reflect MyHeritage data-quality errors (confused or conflated trees).

The "Sierra" and "Almanza" apellidos are Hispanic — suggests these half-siblings may be Colombian-born during Biase's Magdalena (Colombia) period 1880s–1903. If true, Miguel has Colombian-side half-relatives.

Residences (per S-005)

• 1920: Sánchez, Samaná, Dominican Republic — major port on the Samaná peninsula, with an Italian-immigrant commercial community (cocoa, coconut). New geographic context for the line.
• 1923: La Vega, Dominican Republic — confirms the family was in La Vega by the time of birth of daughter Linda Altagracia (1925 La Vega per S-004).

DR movement arc: marriage Salcedo 1915 → various births Salcedo 1916–1923 → Sánchez (Samaná) circa 1920 → La Vega by 1923. The Salcedo–Sánchez–La Vega arc makes sense: all three are eastern Cibao + Samaná corridor, connected by rail in this period.

Open questions

1. Verify the underlying FamilySearch documents that S-005 links to. Each fact should ultimately point at a specific FamilySearch document, not at S-005 as terminal source.
2. Verify the "1884 apparently" claim — where did it come from? Miguel's verbal claim is contradicted by S-004 + S-005 both giving 1885.
3. The Marriage 2 mystery — when, where, before/after marriage 1?
4. The Italian-side siblings' actual maternal apellidos — are they Biase's children by other women (his polygamy), or MyHeritage data-quality errors? Particularly Sierra and Almanza-surnamed half-siblings — if Colombian-born, opens a whole Colombian-side line.
5. Migration arc: Italy → DR (with Colombia in between for father?). When did Evaristo arrive DR? Naturalization / arrival manifest at AGN or via Italian consul? He was in Salcedo by 1915 (marriage).
6. The Sánchez (Samaná) period 1920 — why? Italian commercial community there? Connected to Italian shipping or the Compagnia ferroviaria Samaná-Santiago? Records of foreigners in Samaná 1920 at AGN.