Giovanna Polistena
Of Scilla, Reggio Calabria.
Every relationship drawn here comes from the family tree, and not one of them has yet been proved by a record. That is the honest state of this archive: the chart shows what Michael Mazza's tree asserts, and the colour tells you only whether anything at all has been read about the person at the other end. The method →
Two children here carry one name — Peter Bova. In these towns that is usually not an error: a child who died was very often replaced by a later child given the same name. It is also exactly how a records-matcher invents one person out of two, which is why they are kept apart here and the reader is told.
What is recorded
Where this comes from
All 12 of the relationships drawn above come from Michael Mazza's family tree, and none of them has been proved by a record this archive has read.
1 record has been read about them:
- Brisbane Catholic Cemeteries register — plot V-1038 — burial register
Component 1 · every Polistena in the archive →
The burial
Brisbane Catholic Cemeteries deceased register, read 10 September 2026. Nudgee →
The register corrects the family tree here: born 12 December 1918 → 13 December 1918. The site uses the register.
Others of the same name
These three towns repeat their names relentlessly — this archive holds four men called Rosario Mazza and four called Giuseppe Arena. These are different people, kept apart on purpose rather than merged into one. Why →
- Giovanna Polistena — undated , Brisbane, Queensland, component 1