Ricciardi/Finizia Sepino Record Investigation - 24 April 2026

Scope

Investigated a user-supplied FamilySearch indexed death record for Sebastiano Finizia in Sepino, Campobasso, as a possible deep maternal-line clue for Tony Iacofano through his mother Mary Ricciardi.

The existing repo chain is:

Tony Iacofano -> Mary Ricciardi -> Domenic/Dominic Ricciardi and Christina/Christania Polletta/Pauletta.

No 01_people/ records were updated.

Source Supplied

FamilySearch indexed record:

• Collection: Italy, Campobasso, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1918.
• Record ARK: 1:1:XQ1Q-K6GG.
• Citation supplied by FamilySearch: entry for Sebastiano Finizia and Domenico Finizia, 7 November 1812.
• Event: death, 7 November 1812, Sepino, Campobasso, Molise, Italy.
• Certificate number: 112.
• Indexed person: Sebastiano Finizia, male, age 84, proprietor, estimated birth year 1728.
• Indexed parents: Domenico Finizia and Margherita Gualterio.
• Indexed spouse/associated person: Cristina Maglieri.

Image Availability Check

The FamilySearch page label supplied by the user says Check Image Availability. The agent attempted to retrieve the record page and public platform record endpoint:

• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQ1Q-K6GG returned an Incapsula 403 block from the agent environment.
• https://api.familysearch.org/platform/records/records/XQ1Q-K6GG returned 404 for the public platform record endpoint.

The original image was not viewed. The next check requires signed-in FamilySearch access, a FamilySearch Center or affiliate-library context, or an Archivio di Stato di Campobasso/Antenati browse path.

Research Meaning

This is a promising deep Sepino maternal clue, but it is not yet proof of Tony's ancestor chain. The record is one indexed death entry, and the repo does not yet hold the intervening evidence connecting Mary Ricciardi's documented parents to Sebastiano Finizia, Domenico Finizia, Margherita Gualterio, or Cristina Maglieri.

If later records prove the chain, the index-named parents Domenico Finizia and Margherita Gualterio would currently be the most distant named candidates in this maternal path.

Repo Actions

• Created proposed source source-familysearch-index-for-sebastiano-finizia-death-sepino-1812.
• Created lead lead-sebastiano-finizia-1728.
• Updated HIR-20260423-029 to include the Sepino image-availability and generation-chain follow-up.

Next Actions

1. View the original Sepino death register image for 7 November 1812, certificate No. 112.
2. Verify exact spellings for Finizia/Fenizia, Gualterio, and Maglieri.
3. Search Sepino marriage, death, processetti, and annual/decennial indexes for Finizia, Gualterio, Maglieri, Polletta/Pauletta, and Ricciardi/Ricciardo.
4. Build the generation chain forward from Sebastiano's children or backward from Christina/Christania Polletta/Pauletta before making any canonical person update.