Thank you for that! I was hoping there would be a suitable town very nearby Ortisei, and I think that might fit the bill. LDS has a microfilm for that town (in the German name of Kastelruth, I think) and my hunch is to search there first.

Thank you for your good information. I will follow up on some of those places.

Regarding the information from the LDS, what I found on microfilm was the Catholic parish records of Ortisei, where my grandfather's birth was recorded, and also the birth of the first several of their children. On those ...

In searching microfilms at my local Family History Center, I found information on my grandfather, Aurelio BRESADOLA, in the town of Ortisei (in the Tirol---Val Gardina, I think) and information from those films leads me to believe that my grandmother, Oliva MOLIGNONI, is from "Castello" but I can ...