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Home About The trees Our line, drawn The Atlas The Timeline The Four Quarters

Our line

The Spine The Ancestors The Mazza Name Line The Crossings

The families

The Marriages The Hundred and Ten The Pieces

People & places

The People Blood relatives, drawn Every Name The Register Households Places Nudgee Piedimonte Etneo Briatico Scilla Brisbane

The name

The Name The Mazza The Arena

Evidence

Method Sources What Has Been Read Open Questions Errands The work list Corrections What changed Documents

Investigations

The Sicilian Registers The Queensland Register The Audit Testing the 1697

Start Home About The trees Our line, drawn The Atlas The Timeline The Four Quarters

Our line The Spine The Ancestors The Mazza Name Line The Crossings

The families The Marriages The Hundred and Ten The Pieces

People & places The People Blood relatives, drawn Every Name The Register Households Places Nudgee Piedimonte Etneo Briatico Scilla Brisbane

The name The Name The Mazza The Arena

Evidence Method Sources What Has Been Read Open Questions Errands The work list Corrections What changed Documents

Investigations The Sicilian Registers The Queensland Register The Audit Testing the 1697

Johannesburg

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Who the archive puts here 1

David Ivan Defranceski

The other archives

The Mazza Archive is one of seven, each following a different line of the same family. They use the same method and the same five words for how sure a thing is.

The Defranceschi Archive Istria · Kvarner · Carnia A family written down under eight sovereigns, in four languages, and spelled at least nine different ways. Defranceschi · De Franceschi · Defranceski · Defrančeski
The Falco Archive Arienzo, near Naples Nine documented generations born, married and buried in one valley, and then a migrant ship to Brisbane. Falco · Zampiello · Morgillo · Crisci · Liguori · Maione · Rivetti · Annecchino
The Blažević Archive Senj and the Krmpotska mountains An evidence-first archive for the family of Hedviga Blažević of Senj — carriers, a tobacco factory, and a wall grave. Blažević · Papić · Vukelić · Žubrinić · Kalanj
The Booyzen Archive Graaff-Reinet · Cradock · Johannesburg A Cape Dutch family that kept marrying British women, changed one letter of its name in a war, and came off the train at Johannesburg with nothing. Booyzen · Booysen · Kolbe · Barry · Downing · van Jaarsveld · Schoeman
The Lerena Archive Rosario · the Cape · the Rand A horse-dealer out of Argentina, a stable under Table Mountain, and four family traditions tested against the record rather than repeated. Lerena · Taylor
The D'Arcy Archive England and Ireland · Parramatta · Brisbane Out with the 39th Regiment in 1825, and four generations afterwards in two Brisbane cemeteries. D'Arcy · Saniger · Sneyd · Hornby · Wakefield · Atkinson · Murdoch

And for children: Our Family — The same ten families, told for a six-year-old.

An evidence-first archive of the Mazza family of Piedimonte Etneo in Sicily — and of Briatico and Scilla in Calabria, of New York and Buenos Aires, and of Brisbane. Every claim carries its confidence, or is marked as unproven. Living people are named — name and relationship only, never a date, a place, a photograph or a record.

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