The Spine
The longest descent the family tree asserts: from a man said to be born at Briatico in 1697 to two children born in Brisbane. Its top four generations carry no source — see Testing the 1697.
This is not the Mazza line — for that see the Mazza name line, which is documented at every Sicilian step. This is the longest line, and it belongs to the Prostamo of Briatico. Read it with the audit beside it: the archive has documented this descent back to Domenico Prostamo, and the four generations above him — 1785, 1760, 1726, 1697 — rest on the family tree alone. Testing the 1697 →
- Generation9
Franco Antonino Prostamo and Agnere Polito
born1697, Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
The joint here will not bear weight. This generation rests on the family tree alone. The archive has documented the descent down to Domenico Prostamo and no further up. Testing the 1697 →
- Generation8
Antonino Prostamo and Caterina Scangiaterra
born1726, Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
The joint here will not bear weight. This generation rests on the family tree alone. The archive has documented the descent down to Domenico Prostamo and no further up. Testing the 1697 →
- Generation7
Pasquale Prostamo and Caterina Di Meio
born1760, Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabriadied1829, Pizzo, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
The joint here will not bear weight. This generation rests on the family tree alone. The archive has documented the descent down to Domenico Prostamo and no further up. Testing the 1697 →
- Generation6
Antonino Prostamo and Maria Fragala
born1785, Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
The joint here will not bear weight. This generation rests on the family tree alone. The archive has documented the descent down to Domenico Prostamo and no further up. Testing the 1697 →
- Generation5
Domenico Prostamo and Giovanna Ventrice
born1820, Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
- Generation4
Alfonso Prostamo and Caterina Melluso
born1858, Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
- Generation3
Francessco Prostamo and Maria Rosa Melluso
born1900, Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabriadied1983, Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria
- Generation2
Domenica Prostamo and Sebastiano Mazza
born1928, Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabriadied2010, Brisbane, Queensland
Buried at Nudgee, Brisbane, Queensland.
- Generation1
Frank Mazza and Nancy Arena
living — named only
- Generation0
The two children this archive was assembled for. Between them and Franco Antonino Prostamo of Briatico there are ten generations, three countries and about sixteen thousand kilometres.
Where it stops, and why
Above Franco Antonino Prostamo the tree is empty. He was born about 1697, which puts his own baptism in a parish register kept at Briatico under the Kingdom of Naples — well before civil registration began there in 1809. Nothing above him has been looked for yet, and the archive should not pretend otherwise. What is being looked for →