Giovanna Provenzano is a Corleone native resident, the daughter of Giovanni Provenzano and Lucia Ligotino, who married in 1880. I estimate Giovanna is born the following year. She is named after her father's first wife, who was also Lucia's cousin.
Giovanna marries Leoluca Nieli, son of Biagio Nieli and Giuseppa di Prima, on 26 September 1898.[1]
Giovanna and Leoluca have at least two children, Giuseppa (c. 1908) and Lucia (c. 1914), named after their paternal and maternal grandmothers, respectively.
Giuseppa marries Leoluca Riina on 1 January 1928.[2]
A note on his baptismal record indicates that Leoluca marries Lucia Nieli, daughter of Leoluca, in the Sant'Elena church on 3 September 1934.[3]
Sources
↑ Marriage of Leolucas Nieli and Joanna Provenzano, record no. 62, 26 September 1898, Index, "Italia, Palermo, Diocesi di Monreale, Registri Parrocchiali, 1531-1998," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11580-174990-85?cc=2046915 : 20 May 2014), Corleone > San Martino > Indice (Matrimoni) 1529-1951 > image 537 of 584; Archivio di Arcidiocesi di Palermo (Palermo ArchDiocese Archives, Palermo).
↑ Marriage of Leolucas Riina and Josepha Nieli, record no. 2, 1 January 1928, Index, "Italia, Palermo, Diocesi di Monreale, Registri Parrocchiali, 1531-1998," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11580-176816-56?cc=2046915 : 20 May 2014), Corleone > San Martino > Indice (Matrimoni) 1529-1951 > image 35 of 584; Archivio di Arcidiocesi di Palermo (Palermo ArchDiocese Archives, Palermo).
↑ Baptism of Leolucas Riina, record no. 57, 4 February 1900, "Italia, Palermo, Diocesi di Monreale, Registri Parrocchiali, 1531-1998," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12350-76417-30?cc=2046915 : accessed 16 March 2016), Corleone > San Martino > Battesimi 1899-1905 > image 47 of 457; Archivio di Arcidiocesi di Palermo (Palermo ArchDiocese Archives, Palermo).
The Birth Date is a rough estimate. See the text for details.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Giovanna by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Giovanna: