The Other Archives
This archive is one of six, kept to the same method and by the same hand. This page says how they connect — and why the join itself is not published.
A reader who arrives at The D'Arcy Archive could be forgiven for thinking it stands alone. It does not, and it does not exist by accident: it was begun because the Australian D'Arcys married into a family that already had an archive of its own.
That was my error, not the brief's. I read the root person's spouse where I should have read her parents. The tree is unambiguous: Ian Kenneth D'Arcy married Giuseppina Falco, and their daughter is the person this archive is built outward from. The D'Arcys married Falco exactly as the brief said. The Defranceski marriage is the next one, in the following generation. Recorded with the rest →
How they join
Three archives meet at one marriage and two children. All four of those people are living, and none of these archives publishes living people — so the join is described here and not drawn.
| This archive | runs from Yorkshire and Portsmouth through Parramatta to Brisbane, and stops at a living generation. The spine → |
| The first join — D'Arcy and Falco | a marriage in the parents' generation. Two-fifths of this archive's deepest Australian line meets an Italian one out of Arienzo, Caserta. living, withheld |
| The Falco line | reaches back through Arienzo and Santa Maria a Vico in Campania to Agostino Falcone, born about 1740 — forty ancestors across nine generations, and this archive has never written a word about them |
| The second join — D'Arcy and Defranceski | a marriage in the present generation, and the reason the Defranceski and Lerena archives exist alongside this one living, withheld |
| What comes after | two children in whom all three lines meet — living, withheld |
The six
Each is built the same way and to the same standard: every claim carries its confidence, null results are published as results, and living people are excluded from the build entirely.
A family written down under eight sovereigns, in four languages, and spelled at least nine different ways.
The line this one married into. Istria, Carnia, Fiume and Dalmatia.
Campania to Australia.
Married into THIS line: forty of the root person's own ancestors, out of Arienzo in Caserta.
A horse-dealer out of Argentina, a stable under Table Mountain, and four family traditions tested.
Argentina and the Cape.
An evidence-first archive for the family of Hedviga Blažević of Senj.
Senj, on the Croatian littoral.
A Cape Dutch family that kept marrying British women, and changed one letter of its name in a war.
The Cape.
They are separate sites rather than one because they are separate bodies of evidence, and merging them would blur exactly the joins this method exists to test. Where one of them contradicts this one, that is worth knowing, and worth telling me.