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…
ORIGINS ITALY’s Mary M. Tedesco will be interviewed on BlogTalkRadio with Bernice Bennett on Monday, March 30, 2015 @ 9:00 PM Eastern Time. The topic is “Problem Solving in Genealogical Research.” If you have brick walls in your family history research, you won’t want to miss it! UPDATE: Click here to listen to this Podcast.
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…
The Season 2 finale of PBS’s “Genealogy Roadshow” is now available online! “The Best of Genealogy Roadshow” features some of our favorite stories and memorable moments from Season 1 and Season 2 featuring Hosts Mary Tedesco, Kenyatta D. Berry, and D. Joshua Taylor. Thank you for watching season 2 of “Genealogy Roadshow.” Please like the official “Genealogy Roadshow” Facebook page for updates about future cities and seasons. Click here to watch @ PBS.org! Photo credit: Pat Garin.
“Genealogy Roadshow” Hosts Mary Tedesco (Founder of ORIGINS ITALY), D. Joshua Taylor and Kenyatta D. Berry took the stage during the RootsTech / FGS 2015 Conference keynote speech on Thursday, February 12, 2015 to help support Preserve the Pensions. Why is Preserve the Pensions (War of 1812) an important project? Preserve the Pensions is a community fundraising effort to preserve and digitize 7.2 million pages of War of 1812 Pension Records. These records are among the most requested collections at…