Giovanna Pontillo
An ancestor of Mia and Rocco — generation 5 above them.
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 for this person: 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 →
- giovanni polistena — Act 206 of 1883 names his mother GIOVANNA ROMANO, and the New Orleans manifest of 1908 -- taken from his own statement -- names her Giovanna Romano again. Two independent records on two continents.
The chart still draws the family tree exactly as it was given. This archive does not silently rewrite someone else's research — it marks the edge and shows its working.
What is recorded
A register contradicts what is written above. The lines in this block are the family tree's account. 2 readings taken from the original acts disagree with it — what the registers say →
Where this comes from
All 10 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.
2 records have been read about them:
- Antenati name index, Scilla death acts — atto di morte 19 October 1924; and atto di morte 4 May 1920 (Santa Polistena) — probable
- Antenati name index, Scilla, atto di morte 15 July 1930 — documented
my own reading — a name in dispute, RESOLVED — SHE IS GIOVANNA ROMANO, AND THE PONTILLO BELONGS TO HER MOTHER-IN-LAW. A FOURTH record now calls her Romano -- her husband's death act of 1924 gives «Coniuge Giovanna Romano», and their daughter Santa's of 1920 gives «Madre Giovanna Romano». The same act names the husband's own mother as ANNA PONTILLO. SO THE EXPORT TOOK THE HUSBAND'S PARENTS AND HUNG THEM ON THE WIFE: «Giuseppi Pontillo» is Camillo Antonio's father GIUSEPPE POLISTENA, and the Pontillo is his mother ANNA. That is why this archive could never find a Pontillo family behind her -- there is not one. Two asserted ancestors dissolve and two documented ones replace them.
my own reading — a name in dispute, SETTLED — HER OWN DEATH ACT ENDS IT. «GIOVANNA ROMANO, died Scilla 15 July 1930, Padre ANNUNZIATO, Madre ANGELA ZIRILLI, Coniuge CAMILLO ANTONIO POLISTENA.» She is named with her own surname, her own parents and her own husband, on her own act. THAT IS FIVE RECORDS CALLING HER ROMANO -- Scilla Nati 1883 atto 206, the New Orleans manifest of 1908, her husband's death act of 1924, her daughter Santa's of 1920, and now this. THE TREE'S «GIUSEPPI PONTILLO» AND «NUNZIATTA PONTILLO» ARE NOT HER PARENTS AND NEVER WERE. Her parents are ANNUNZIATO ROMANO and ANGELA ZIRILLI, and the Pontillo belonged to her mother-in-law, ANNA PONTILLO. Two asserted ancestors are withdrawn and two documented ones replace them.
Where the two disagree, the chart above still draws the tree as it stands. This archive does not silently rewrite what it was given — the acts are here.
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