42 people, 9 generations, 21 walls
Our line, drawn
Frank Mazza's ancestry as a single chart — every branch followed to the end of what is known, with nothing cut to make it fit.
The direct line tells this as prose and The Four Quarters takes the branches one at a time. This is all of it at once, which shows the thing neither of those can: how quickly a family tree stops being a tree and becomes a handful of threads.
There are 42 people here across 9 generations, and 21 branches that end. A tenth generation has room for 512 people; this one holds 2. That is not a failing of the research so much as the ordinary shape of a Sicilian and Calabrian line whose parish registers are read one book at a time.
Self
Gen 1
Gen 2
Gen 3
Gen 4
Gen 5
Gen 6
Gen 7
Gen 8
No parents recorded
Mariano Mazza
b. 1809
No parents recorded
Maria Catalano
b. 1809
b. 1850 Piedimonte Etneo, Catania, Sicily
1879–1929 Piedimonte Etneo, Catania, Sicily
No parents recorded
Rosario Nicotra
No parents recorded
Venera Murabito
No parents recorded
Gaetano Cassaniti
No parents recorded
Maria Currenti
d. 1925
1875–1963 Piedimonte Etneo, Catania, Sicily
1920–2002 Piedimonte Etneo, Catania, Sicily
Before Briatico, 1697
b. 1697 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
Before Briatico, 1699
b. 1699 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
b. 1726 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
Before Briatico, 1746
b. 1746 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
1760–1829 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
Before Briatico, 1762
b. 1762 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
b. 1785 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
Before Briatico, 1789
b. 1789 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
b. 1820 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
Before Briatico, 1825
b. 1825 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
b. 1858 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
Before Briatico, 1860
1860–1957 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
1900–1983 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
Before Briatico, 1855
b. 1855 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
No parents recorded
1875–1919 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
No parents recorded
Before Mandaradoni (Briatico), 1809
b. 1809 Mandaradoni (Briatico), Vibo Valentia, Calabria
No parents recorded
b. 1843 Potenzoni (Briatico), Vibo Valentia, Calabria
No parents recorded
No parents recorded
1806–1876 Potenzoni (Briatico), Vibo Valentia, Calabria
No parents recorded
1845–1892 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
1880–1970 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
1907–1994 New York, New York
1928–2010 Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
The 21 walls, and why each one is a wall
No parents recordedNot yet worked
No parents are recorded for Mariano Mazza in this archive. Where the line goes next is not yet known.
No parents recordedNot yet worked
No parents are recorded for Maria Catalano in this archive. Where the line goes next is not yet known.
No parents recordedNot yet worked
No parents are recorded for Rosario Nicotra in this archive. Where the line goes next is not yet known.
No parents recordedNot yet worked
No parents are recorded for Venera Murabito in this archive. Where the line goes next is not yet known.
No parents recordedNot yet worked
No parents are recorded for Gaetano Cassaniti in this archive. Where the line goes next is not yet known.
No parents recordedNot yet worked
No parents are recorded for Maria Currenti in this archive. Where the line goes next is not yet known.
Before Briatico, 1697Not yet worked
No parents are recorded for Franco Antonino Prostamo in this archive. The line is known back to Briatico and no further.
Before Briatico, 1699Not yet worked
No parents are recorded for Agnere Polito in this archive. The line is known back to Briatico and no further.
Before Briatico, 1746Not yet worked
No parents are recorded for Caterina Scangiaterra in this archive. The line is known back to Briatico and no further.
Before Briatico, 1762Not yet worked
No parents are recorded for Caterina Di Meio in this archive. The line is known back to Briatico and no further.
Before Briatico, 1789Not yet worked
No parents are recorded for Maria Fragala in this archive. The line is known back to Briatico and no further.
Before Briatico, 1825Not yet worked
No parents are recorded for Giovanna Ventrice in this archive. The line is known back to Briatico and no further.
Before Briatico, 1860Not yet worked
No parents are recorded for Caterina Melluso in this archive. The line is known back to Briatico and no further.
Before Briatico, 1855Not yet worked
No parents are recorded for Fillipo Melluso in this archive. The line is known back to Briatico and no further.
No parents recordedNot yet worked
No parents are recorded for Rosa Vitrale in this archive. Where the line goes next is not yet known.
No parents recordedNot yet worked
No parents are recorded for Fortunato Anile in this archive. Where the line goes next is not yet known.
Before Mandaradoni (Briatico), 1809Not yet worked
No parents are recorded for Antonia Grasso in this archive. The line is known back to Mandaradoni (Briatico) and no further.
No parents recordedNot yet worked
No parents are recorded for Carmela Collia in this archive. Where the line goes next is not yet known.
No parents recordedNot yet worked
No parents are recorded for Giuseppe Barbuto in this archive. Where the line goes next is not yet known.
No parents recordedNot yet worked
No parents are recorded for Saveria Lesto in this archive. Where the line goes next is not yet known.
No parents recordedNot yet worked
No parents are recorded for Domenica Birroca in this archive. Where the line goes next is not yet known.
How much of each generation has been found, set against how much could exist, is on the trees. The towns these people came from are on Places.