Richard De Franceschi — The Defranceschi Archive

The family

No family chart is drawn for this person, and that is a statement about the data rather than about them. This archive records kin against a name — the tree on a name page gathers everyone who shares it, so it may hold one person's dates beside another's wife. Rather than hand a reader a family that might not be this person's, the chart is drawn only where the relationship is recorded person by person, which today means the direct line.

What the archive knows

Born 2 December 1932 — and that date is deliberately not printed as his. He would be 94, no death is recorded anywhere, and this archive gives a person who may be living a name and a town and nothing else. The date is in the document and stays in this sentence as the document's statement rather than as his dates. Named as the child of Bruno de Franceschi and Gerda Seedorf de Franceschi on their declaration of intention 284221, Brooklyn, 1939. He is the only person on that paper with no birthplace recorded, which fits a child born in the United States to parents who were not yet citizens. ⚠ Not to be confused with the Richard Defranceschi already on this roster from David's MyHeritage tree**, who carries no dates at all: nothing joins the two but a forename, and that is how five women called Maria came to share one infant's burial. Findmypast, «United States Naturalization Petitions» — final petition and citizenship papers, New York, 1865–1958; index © IRI, used by permission of FamilySearch Intl.