My father's side is Violante. I am just starting to look into the history. From my knowledge, we can from a town north of Lisbon called Foz do Arelho. After visiting there this summer I found that the Violante's of Foz do Arelho are known as the Violante plague to some, because there are so many from this town just outside of Caldas de Rainha. I am 25 and I was fist generation Canadian. My father's name is Fernando and mother's name is Rosalinda (maiden is Dias of Peniche Dias' family). My uncle is Michael Violante, my grandfather is Jose Manuel Violante and my grandmother is Maria Ermelinda Violante. They came to Canada in 1970 I believe to the Toronto area and have since moved back to Foz. We have expanded out to the Aurora/Newmarket area and now I have moved out to the Grimsby area. I would be interested to know if we are related at all