ORIGINS ITALY Founder and Genealogy Roadshow (PBS-TV) Host Mary Tedesco is featured in the May 2016 edition of Voce Italiana newspaper. The article highlights the new season of Genealogy Roadshow (premiering on PBS stations on 17 May 2016), Mary’s Italian-American background, and includes some tips for getting started with your Italian genealogy research. The entire article is posted above with permission from Voce Italiana. Special thanks to the team at Voce Italiana. Click here to learn more about Voce Italiana.
ORIGINS ITALY Founder and “Genealogy Roadshow” Host Mary Tedesco will present two Italian genealogy lectures at the Explore Your Italian Roots Seminar in Beverly, MA on 14 May 2016: “Roads to Rome: Locating Your Italian Ancestral Town” and “Andiamo in Italia: Italian Genealogical Research in Italy and from Home.” Detailed lecture descriptions below. Objects and documents from the Beverly Historical Society’s collection related to Italian-Americans in Beverly will be on view. When: Saturday, May 14, 2016 from 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM. Where:…
How do you fall in love? With so many good-looking people walking around Basilicata, the answer is self-evident: travel there, meet one of the beautiful people and fall in love. Yes, because the people I’ve met there are as beautiful on the inside as they are on the outside – so disarming and so warmly seductive. Ah, but then reality sets in. You awaken to the fact that you are indulging in the age-old Italian fantasy of amore. (If that’s…
Join Mary Tedesco, co-Host of the PBS TV series GENEALOGY ROADSHOW, on Monday, April 25, 2016 @ 6:00 PM for an advance screening of the GENEALOGY ROADSHOW Providence episode before it airs on PBS in June, 2016. This episode contains a special segment filmed at the New Bedford Whaling Museum! When: Monday, April 25, 2016 @6:00 pm Where: New Bedford Whaling Museum (18 Johnny Cake Hill New Bedford, MA 02740) Details: Free and Open to the Public Registration Required Click Here GENEALOGY ROADSHOW…
Yesterday evening (4 April 2016), WGBH, Boston’s PBS station, hosted an Insider Screening of the “Genealogy Roadshow” Boston episode. The screening was followed by a genealogy panel discussion featuring “Genealogy Roadshow” Host and ORIGINS ITALY Founder Mary Tedesco and two of her rockstar colleagues Polly FitzGerald Kimmitt, CG and David Allen Lambert. WGBH Insiders will be able to view a recording of this special event soon @ http://www.wgbh.org/support/insider.cfm. Genealogy Roadshow premieres on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 8:OO PM EDT on…