Long-lived and short-lived families.

The first attempt at this ran into an obvious trap: family lines with a lot of descendants who emigrated to Chicago looked dramatically longer-lived than everyone else — the "Rich" line (the Chicago-Americanized branch of Riccio) topped the list at a 73-year average, well clear of anyone else. But that's not a family trait. Most of that line lived their adult lives in 20th-century America with modern medicine and sanitation, not 18th- or 19th-century Sassano. Comparing that fairly against families who stayed in Italy for centuries isn't measuring genetics — it's measuring which families happened to catch a later, healthier era.

So the numbers below exclude anyone with a Chicago or Illinois connection entirely, comparing only people who lived and died in and around Sassano itself, and only counting adults — deaths at 15 or older, since infant and child mortality reflects a different set of causes than adult longevity does. Only surnames with at least 20 qualifying adult deaths are included, so a family of three isn't skewing the picture.

Against a baseline adult average of 58.2 years (median 62), the longest-lived line remains Miele at a 72.4-year average, backed by 32 qualifying adults. Delisa holds second. Borgia, which entered the rankings after crossing this page's 20-person minimum, holds third place at 68.6 years across 24 people — still a small sample, and one that can move a fair amount as more records arrive. Martucci, Caporrino and Stavola round out the top six, with Pizzi seventh. Stavola folds in a branch of the family recorded as "di Stavola" in some records — the same line under an older form of the surname, not a separate one, combined into a single 281-person figure. The shortest-lived is Curcio, at a 47.1-year average; Truglio and Baialardo follow close behind, then Esposito (52.0 years across 23 people), di Lorenzo (52.8 across 60), and finally Orlando and Gruccio at 53.1 and 53.3 (61 and 62 people), with Vasquez, Bellezza and Ricciardone just behind. This update's movement was small at the top and bottom and a little larger in the middle, and the top and bottom of the list kept their order. Stavola adds an adult (now 281) and its average eases from 63.8 to 63.7, holding sixth. At the short-lived end, Baialardo loses an adult (now 47) and its average rises from 50.8 to 51.0, holding third from the foot of the table, so the gap between the longest- and shortest-lived lines stays at just over 25 years. In the middle, di Luca loses an adult (now 218) and its average rises from 59.0 to 59.2, which lifts it from 36th to 31st, while Petrizzo (now 27th) and Donza (28th) each move up a place and di Brizzi adds two adults (now 227) and slips from 27th to 29th (59.4). d'Amato adds three (now 507) and its average falls from 59.1 to 58.9, from 35th to 36th. Further down, Cartolano adds an adult (now 65) and its average falls from 58.2 to 57.7, taking it from 43rd to 50th, di Sisti adds four adults (now 107) and falls from 65th to 73rd (55.2), and Capuano adds one (now 139) and slips from 71st to 76th (55.1). Two lines rise: Manfredi loses an adult (now 38) and moves from 76th to 70th (55.3), and Martuccio loses two (now 67) and moves from 77th to 71st (55.2). The overall adult average holds at 58.2 years across 12,586 lifespans, 14 more than last update, and the median stays at 62. The gap between the top and bottom of the list sits at just over 25 years — a reminder that these rankings, especially near the bottom, can still move as the tree grows.