Researching Bernard Blastorah I

In the following post, I will interrupt my description of the six siblings in order to describe their father - Bernard Blastorah. I’m doing this because I have been in touch with a Saint Mark’s Cathedral archivist in Venice, and I want to give her a full picture of what we know about Bernard. That way, if there is anything at all in the church records, we’ll know. I’ll provide her with the link to that post and she can search her records based on that information.

I’ll also be traveling during the next weeks, to Vienna and to Venice in order to do some research there myself. In Vienna I hope to go through the military archives of the Austro Hungarian era, as they would have records from the time that Bernard was in the Royal Navy. In Venice, it will be a surprise. I asked around last time I was there, and the name was totally unknown. I’ll see what the archivist tells me at Saint Mark’s and then focus my efforts on orphans and church records during that period.

Full time work at the kindergarten here in Munich has prevented me from doing the amount of posts I’d like to, but now that I’ll have some time off I can get more done.
The post regarding Bernard will be viewable in the next couple of hours. Please let me know if you have any tips or advice for me in my research in Austria and Italy, or especially if you have any information which might help the archivist at Saint Mark’s.

Thanks,
Jen