You can find out where the majority of the Dio families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records. Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
Invite a minimum of 5 people other than yourself to receive a $10 credit on the basket you decide to weave. You also receive an additional 10% credit of the total sales of your class. Kits of the class baskets are available for you to take home and do on your own with detailed, copyrighted patterns included.
There is at least one picture of a Cherokee basket from the 17th century. A European painting, The Treasures of America, depicts a round basket at the foot of a trio of native cherubs. With its diagonal weave, the basket appears to be rivercane. Physical evidence of rivercane baskets supports the recorded remembrances of this period. Among the most significant is a set of rivercane baskets taken to London in 1725 by Sir Francis Richardson, the first governor of the Carolina colony.