Paolo Sciacca
1729–1809
Of Piedimonte Etneo.
What the record says
The story
Where they came from
No parent is named for this person in this archive yet.
What they left behind
About this record
THE OLDEST DOCUMENTED PERSON THIS ARCHIVE HAS REACHED IN THIS CORNER OF SICILY, AND THE PROOF THAT THE METHOD WORKS. He died on 20 January 1809 - ELEVEN YEARS BEFORE SICILY HAD ANY CIVIL REGISTRATION AT ALL - and he is here because the parish priest wrote out a Latin extract from the burial book in March 1858 so that his grandson's marriage could go ahead, and the civil office filed it.Read on
That is exactly the route past 1820 this archive has been looking for: a PARISH document copied into a CIVIL bundle. It did not work for the Patane or the Suderi, whose grandparents were still alive when their children married and so needed no such proof; it worked for the Sciacca because Santo was dead and Paolo before him. The lesson for the next session is that a processetto is worth opening in proportion to how many of the spouses' parents and grandparents were DEAD at the marriage.
Where this comes from
This person is not in the family's file. They exist here because an act names them, and this archive has read it. The reading is Piedimonte Etneo, Matrimoni processetti 1858, foglio 11 (an_ua72234, images 76-82), the bundle of documents behind the marriage; found by bisection by a delegated reader and the key page re-zoomed by the session. Nothing on this page comes from Michael's export, which never held them — so there is no tree account here to agree or disagree with, and the pieces the export arrived in do not include them. How many there are →
All 1 of the relationships named above have been proved by a record this archive has read, rather than taken from the family tree.
No record has been read for this person. What is known of them is what the tree asserts, and it is unverified.