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The DiMeras are an upper-class Italian Catholic family on the soap opera Days of our Lives. Over the years, the nature of the family itself has been retconned several times; although never directly and overtly, it's been represented as old-line Italian nobility, a relatively self-made European business dynasty, and a stereotypical Mafia family. Its current incarnation appears to be a sort of combination of these: a fairly wealthy Tuscan family with roots in ancient Italian nobility, which had at various points in its history fallen on hard times and rebuilt itself, through both legitimate and illegitimate means, and currently has ties to traditional Italian organized crime (and at times, various terrorist elements).

Over the years it's been revealed that the DiMera family shares a long history with both the Bradford and the Brady families of the fictional midwestern American city of Salem. Currently (as of 2007), the show has been exploring the DiMeras' connection to the Brady clan, dating back at least 50 years in the Bradys' ancestral home of Galway, Ireland, and the roots of a feud between the two families. This is actually a retcon, as the tension between the two families was originally the result of detective brothers Roman and Bo Brady and their constant attempts to thwart the various (and often outlandish) schemes of DiMera family patriarch (and crime boss) Stefano DiMera.

In 2007, the family was revealed to originally hail from Tuscany, although patriarch Stefano DiMera has at various times headquartered the family in Rome, New Orleans, Venezuela, various uncharted islands in the Caribbean, and of course, Salem. A 1988 storyline revealed some family activity in the Far East, but through the years the family has consistently been portrayed as having significant legitimate business holdings, as well as criminal activity, throughout Latin America as well as the United States. Storylines in 2008 indicate the core of the family business is shipping. Nevertheless, the family has always appeared to be extraordinarily powerful in the criminal underworld, and the name "DiMera" consistently strikes fear in the hearts of other criminals. In fact, the family and the crime syndicate it controls are so powerful as to be a major focus of several high-level law enforcement and intelligence agencies throughout the world, including the fictional ISA.

Members

Characters currently on the show are noted in bold; family members through marriage are in italics.

First generation

  • Gino DiMera (anscestor, unknown how long time back)
  • Six Unnamed Brothers
  • Santo DiMera (deceased)

Second generation

Third generation

Fourth generation

Family Tree

  • Santo DiMera (deceased)
    • m. Unnamed woman (deceased)
      • c. Stefano DiMera
        • a. Lee DuMonde (deceased)
        • a. Unnamed woman
        • a. Celeste Perrault
          • c. Alexandra Carver {given up for adoption}
            • m. Abraham Carver
              • c. Theodore Brandon Carver
        • a. Ellen Hawk (deceased)
          • c. Benjamin Hawk (deceased)
            • m. Sonia Hawk
              • c. Steven Hawk
        • i. Susan Crump
    • a. Colleen Brady (deceased)
      • c. John Black {given up for adoption}

DiMera Enterprises

DiMera Enterprises, founded by Santo DiMera is an international, undescripted family-ran crime syndicate. In Europe, DiMera Enterprises were behind many hostile takeovers, drug operations and organized crimes. In early February 1982, Stefano DiMera moved the "family business" to midwestern Salem to build a family there. It originated in Tuscany, but planted offices in various parts of the world, including Rome, New Orleans, Venezuela, various uncharted islands in the Caribbean, and of course Salem.

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