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 58.4 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, Pizzi, and Caporrino round out the rest of the top six. Stavola holds seventh, folding 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, now combined into a single 260-person figure. The shortest-lived is Curcio, at a 47.6-year average; Baialardo and Truglio follow close behind, then di Lorenzo (52.8 years across 60 people), which slips into the bottom five this update as newly added records pulled its average down from 53.3, and finally Vasquez at 53.0. Orlando (53.1 years across 53 people) drops out of the bottom five to sixth from the bottom, with Battista (53.1 across 45 people, down from 53.6 after a duplicate-record cleanup) and Barbella just behind it. This update's movement was in the top twenty-five: Abbatemarco climbs from twelfth to ninth (62.9 years across 129 people) while Setaro slides from eighth to twelfth, as newly added deaths pulled its average down from 63.2 to 62.8; di Stefano moves up to eighth, and Stavola holds seventh even as its average eases from 64.2 to 63.9. Further down, Rubino falls from seventeenth to twenty-first (61.1 years across 235 people), and Abbondanza jumps from thirty-seventh to twenty-fifth as two more adults joined its group (now 23) and lifted its average from 59.1 to 60.3. The gap between the top and bottom of the list sits at just under 25 years — a reminder that these rankings, especially near the bottom, can still move as the tree grows.