Figure 1. Archivio di Stato di Siena, Pieve di San Giovanni Battista 23, fol. 19r. This is the baptismal record of Aurelia Petrucci, showing the date of her baptism and the names of her father, grandfather, and godparents.

Figure 2. Elena Brizio’s transcription of Archivio di Stato di Siena, Pieve di San Giovanni Battista 13. This Word document was a first attempt to make a record of names: simple, but unusable for the goal of connecting information.

Figure 3. Comparison between the original archival document and the data entered in GEA’s “Person” table. As you can see, some information of the original archival document (the godfathers) have not been included in Aurelia’s database record.

Figure 4. A list of the nuns of the convent of St. Niccolò for the year 1531. Archivio Arcivescovile di Siena, Fondo Storico della Curia Arcivescovile di Siena 3890.

Figure 5. Data entry for GEA’s “Relationship” table. Scrolling down the list of names (both female and male) belonging to the Petrucci family, we can locate the individual we are looking for.

Figure 6. Data entry for GEA’s other “Document” table.

Figure 7. Screenshot of the view to browse records in GEA.

Figure 8. Screenshot of the password-protected administrative section of GEA.

Please see 'Notes' below for any suggested/official citation information added by the author(s) of this work. Otherwise, you can cite the HSS Commons instance of this publication as follows:

• Elena Brizio, Luis Meneses, (2026), "Supplementary Material of ‘GEA: Invisible Sienese Women Made Visible.’", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.25547/J9NG-HB25)

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Brizio, Elena, and Luis Meneses. 2025. “GEA: Invisible Sienese Women Made Visible.” In New Technologies and Renaissance Studies IV: The Changing Shape of Digital Early Modern Studies, edited by Randa El Khatib and Caroline Winter, 261–78. New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 12. Iter Press. https://iterpress.org/9781649591197/new-technologies-and-renaissance-studies-iv/.