Somethings that you find when doing genealogical research you wish you hadn't.  On Tuesday I found that two brothers, Gandolfo (aged 7) and Francesco Paolo (age 5), the sons of Mariano Russo Alesi and Rosaria Verri, both died on 1 May 1870. Today I began doing research on the births of 1870.  I soon learned that Rosaria gave birth to a boy named Gandolfo on that same day.  If one read this in a novel, one would scoff at the ridiculous coincidence.  But knowing that this tragedy befell a real couple, one can only grieve and wonder how Rosaria and Mariano got up the courage to go on.  Of the seven children they had between 1855 and 1870, four had died as children.  And don't believe that stuff about how losing a child was easier for parents of earlier ages because it happened much more frequently.  Parents who have not hearts of stone grieve for a lost child.