Blood relatives
Choose a person and they go to the middle of the chart: parents above, brothers and sisters beside them, children below. Every line is drawn in the colour of the evidence that made it, and a line is always drawn at the weaker grade of the two records behind it.
The eight generations of the archive's own direct line are here, from Giovanni at Gologorica in 1750 to the living generation in Brisbane — start at the most recent and walk up. The living are carried by name and nothing else, no dates, which is the rule everywhere on this site: the person most likely to want to see their own line is alive, and leaving them off the drawing entirely would have been a strange way to honour that.
This archive has always said, in words, how well each claim is known. This page is the first that says it in a picture. Choosing a person draws everyone the archive can join to them by blood — parents and children, brothers and sisters, and through them aunts, uncles, cousins and their children, as far as the records reach. Hover any box and it says how they are related. A solid line means a register was read and it names the relationship. A lighter line means an index says so. A dashed line means the family tree asserts it and nothing has been read that confirms it — and those are the ones worth your suspicion, because they are the ones that have been wrong before.
390 of the 1407 people this archive can name are joined to at least one other by a link it can show you. They fall into 27 families of three or more; the largest holds 42. The rest stand alone — not because they are unrelated, but because the register that would join them has not been read.
Nobody of that name is drawn here — and if you were looking
for someone alive, they are here — carried by name and nothing else, no dates and no
detail, which is the rule across all seven archives. How that works →
If it was somebody long dead, it may be the spelling. These registers say
Defranceschi and De Franceschi far more often than Defranceski —
Franceschi finds every one of them.
This archive has always said, in words, how well each claim is known. This page says it in a picture. A solid line means a register was read and it names the relationship; a lighter line means an index says so; a dashed line means the family tree asserts it and nothing has been read that confirms it — and those are the ones worth your suspicion, because they are the ones that have been wrong before.
390 of the 390 people this archive can name are joined to at least one other by a link it can show you. They fall into 27 families of three or more; the largest holds 42. The rest stand alone — not because they are unrelated, but because the record that would join them has not been read.
Nobody of that name is drawn here. If you were looking for someone alive, that is the point rather than a fault: the living are named and nothing more across this estate, and only where a record has placed them.
the direct line through this person a register was read an index says so the tree says so, nothing read
What the lines are made of
Every link on this page, counted by the kind of record behind it.
| How the link was made | Links | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Read | 219 | a baptism, marriage or burial act was read and it names the relationship. |
| Index | 824 | an index gives the relationship; the act behind it has not been opened. |
| Direct line | 133 | carried on the archive's own spine, where the joins are argued page by page. |
| Tree | 599 | the family tree asserts it and no record has been read. Drawn dashed. |
The full bibliography, with what each source gave and where it is weak →