A previous post discussed the first steps in tracing your Italian roots (click here to read the post). Some of the strategies included consulting home sources and interviewing older relatives for information about your Italian origins. Sometimes, however, knowledge of a family’s ancestral town is not known by the older generation or discoverable in family sources. This is when it is necessary to introduce some good old-fashioned genealogy research into the mix. Some may find this research more challenging than…
ORIGINS ITALY Founder Mary M. Tedesco was recently featured on the Total Tuscany Podcast. Topics covered include getting started with Italian genealogy and season 2 the PBS TV Series “Genealogy Roadshow.” Do you have Italian roots? Click here to listen to Mary M. Tedesco on the Total Tuscany Podcast! Special thanks to Travis Justice and Pat Campagna from Total Tuscany. If you love Tuscany and Italy in general, please check out the Total Tuscany website @ www.totaltuscany.com. Related post: “Why I…
Believe it or not, you can learn a lot about Italian genealogy by attending Irish family history lectures. The beauty of the genealogy skill set is that it can be applied to nearly any nationality or ethnicity. When researching our immigrant ancestors in the United States, research methodology tends to be consistent across the board whether your family is Irish, Russian, Croatian or Chinese. Certainly, there are unique aspects of research (like language, record sets, repositories or collections) that may…
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A visit to your ancestral town in Italy will change your life. Nowhere else will you feel a more familiar sense of deep connection than at the epicenter of your Italian roots—your ancestral town. Here are five reasons you should get on the next plane to visit you ancestral town in Italy: THE GENEALOGY. (Of course!!!) In Italy, every town has its unique grouping of surnames that make it like nowhere else. When you return to your ancestral town, your…
Season 2 of PBS’s “Genealogy Roadshow” (2015) is officially on the books. Thank you to PBS, Krasnow Productions, our research team, everyone else involved, and a very special THANK YOU to our viewers and fans for watching the show! Here is a guide to the PBS “Genealogy Roadshow” Season 2 episodes. Watch episodes and previews from season 2 at PBS (click here), on YouTube (click here) and purchase full episodes on iTunes (click here). New Orleans – Cabildo Premiered, January 13, 2015 at 8:00 p.m. A team…