Iacofano Document-Backed Migration Chain Implementation - 24 April 2026

Scope

Implemented the document-backed migration-chain plan for Tony / Christopher Iacofano's paternal line:

Tony / Christopher -> Arthur Joe Iacofano -> John/Giovanni Iacofano and Mary/Maria Lorenzo/Laurenzo -> documented Italian comune -> Italian parents.

This was a source-first pass. No 01_people/ records were updated, no new source/event records were created, and no 05_raw/ files were edited because no new document artifact or document-ready public hit was available.

Repository State Checked

Implementation Results

  • CPL/WEPL scan intake: no new scan artifacts were present, so no obituary, cemetery, or death-record source was created.
  • 1930 census lane: public web searches for the exact address and surname variants did not expose a document-ready 1930 census image or official index hit for the 2025 Random Rd. household. The address/ED browse remains a signed-in or archive-access task, but the browse target is now narrower: Stephen P. Morse and Joel D. Weintraub's 1930 ED finder data lists Cleveland Random Rd in ED suffixes 362 and 369; Paul Av intersects only suffix 362. If 2025 Random Rd. is on the Random/Paul block, browse Cuyahoga/ Cleveland ED 18-362 first, then 18-369 as the fallback.
  • Naturalization lane: public searches for John/Giovanni and Mary/Maria with Iacofano/Iaciofano/Yaciofano/Jaciofano variants did not expose a target Cuyahoga or federal Cleveland declaration, petition, card, or voter-index entry. This remains the best U.S.-side bridge to an exact Italian birthplace.
  • Passenger-list lane: no passenger candidate met the plan's two-anchor threshold, so no passenger source was added.
  • Italian locality lane: no U.S. record in this pass named a comune. Toro and nearby Campobasso communes remain the first browse lane; Busso remains a comparison lane only.

Public search noise that was not ingested included modern Iacofano business pages, unrelated or later same-surname obituaries, a Lake County naturalization index page without a target Iacofano/Iaciofano/Yaciofano hit, and public-tree or people-search snippets. These do not meet the repo's document-backed threshold.

Current Identity Rules

  • Keep lead-john-iacofano-1874 open until at least two document-backed U.S. sources tie John/Giovanni to Arthur or to Mary/Maria's household and the death/birth-year conflict is resolved.
  • Keep lead-giovanni-iaciofano-busso-1876 separate from Arthur's father unless a U.S. source bridges John/Giovanni to Busso or original Busso records plus U.S. identity anchors support the merge.
  • Preserve Lorenzo/Laurenzo and Iacofano/Iaciofano/Yaciofano/Taciofano exactly as recorded in each source.
  • Use passenger manifests only after naturalization, obituary, death/cemetery, census, or directory evidence supplies multiple identity anchors.

Open Work

  • HIR-20260423-010: Lawrence J. Iacofano 1997 Plain Dealer obituary and 1932 John Iaciofano CPL necrology/cemetery record.
  • HIR-20260423-011: Biagio L., Joseph J., and Albert Iacofano Plain Dealer obituary scans.
  • HIR-20260423-012: Lawrence J. Iacofano News-Herald scan via WEPL or Morley.
  • HIR-20260423-014: signed-in 1930 census/address browse and Cuyahoga/federal Cleveland naturalization search.
  • HIR-20260423-029: Toro/nearby Campobasso and Busso original civil-register image browse after U.S. bridge work.

Any future returned artifact should be ingested as one status: proposed source per artifact before any person-record update is considered.