Alec Ferretti

Alec Ferretti is a New York City-based professional genealogist, who works for the Wells Fargo Family & Business History Center, researching family histories for high net worth clients.  He recently graduated from NYU and LIU’s dual masters program, with degrees in archives and library science.  Throughout his studies, he worked in various capacities in archives throughout New York City, including the Tamiment Library and the New-York Historical Society.

Alec specializes in the genealogy of 20th century immigrants to the United States alongside Italian genealogy, while dabbling proficiently in Latin American and Jewish Genealogy.  Alec’s own Jewish heritage served as the inspiration for his popular lecture on endogamy, in which he compared previously crowd-sourced shared centiMorgan values for endogamous and non-endogamous populations, in order to help weed through false matches.

Alec is a regular lecturer at genealogical societies in the New York area, and has presented at numerous conferences around the United States.  He serves as the President of the New York Genealogy & Technology Group, an informal organization which meets bimonthly to discuss topics brought forth by members.  Alec was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Professional Genealogists, and serves actively on the Board of Reclaim the Records, a nonprofit dedicated to wrangling public records from restrictive government agencies.  Alec’s passion is records access, and he dedicates much of his spare time to projects - sanctioned through Reclaim the Records or independently - which seek to ensure public records remain public.