Franchesca Werden is a professional genealogist with over thirty years of experience doing Italian research. She holds a Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University. Franchesca began tracing her own Italian family as a teenager after listening to her nonna’s stories about the “old country”. She has extensive experience with both Italian civil and parish records. As an ICAP Team Member, Franchesca provides research of Italian civil records of birth, marriage and death as well as US naturalization and immigration research.