Marie Jerome Defranceschi (Bastiani)

…not a branch Two women at Tomino in Cap Corse, and the reason this archive expects them to be strangers. This archive holds two people in Corsica, and has never read a record for either. They are Cattarina Defranceschi and Marie Jerome Defranceschi, born Bastiani, both of Tomino in the Cap Corse, and both reached this project through the family tree rather than through a register. Until today the site filed Corsica under «not ours». That was a guess wearing the clothes of a finding, and…

…This archive expects these people to be strangers, and will say so unless a register says otherwise. What is actually held Cattarina Defranceschi Tomino, Haute-Corse the family tree· no record read Marie Jerome Defranceschi, born Bastiani Tomino, Haute-Corse the family tree· no record read Jean Defranceschi Corsica· France a namesake — historian of Corsica and of the French Revolution. No claim of kinship is made Jean-Baptiste-Marie…

…document type TABLE DECENNALE. This is what turns Corsica from a campaign into an afternoon. Every birth, marriage and death at Tomino across ninety years is indexed by surname in these nine books. Cattarina Defranceschi and Marie Jerome Defranceschi née Bastiani are either in them or they are not, and either answer is worth having. Nothing here has been read yet — this is the door, located and written down. 12 NUM 4186 1802 – 1812 12 NUM 4187 1813 – 1822 12 NUM 4188…