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…
ORIGINS ITALY Founder Mary M. Tedesco (and her research team) will be conducting onsite genealogical research in Italy for valued clients during the month of April 2015. This will be Mary’s fourteenth (14) trip to Italy. Regular updates from Italy will be posted on Mary’s Twitter account, other ORIGINS ITALY social media accounts, and in the ORIGINS ITALY Newsletter (click here to subscribe). Onsite genealogical research in Italy is a core component for many of ORIGINS ITALY’s client projects. Extensive preparation…
Listen in as ORIGINS ITALY’s Mary M. Tedesco chats about Italian food, memories, and of course Italian genealogy! Special thanks to Lora @ Savoring Italy for the invitation to be on the”Due Parole” podcast. Click here to listen to the “Due Parole” featuring Mary M. Tedesco!
ORIGINS ITALY is pleased to announce that “Tracing Your Italian Ancestors” is now available for purchase! “Tracing Your Italian Ancestors” was compiled by ORIGINS ITALY Founder Mary M. Tedesco and Marcia Iannizzi Melnyk. This special issue of Family Chronicle Magazine will provide invaluable tips and guidance in your search for your Italian ancestry. Articles include: Getting the Basics; Researching in Italy; Visiting Ancestral Villages; Locating NARA Records; Home and Family Records; Passenger Manifests; Italian Church Records; Italian Civil Records; Italian Notary…
Cher Hale from the Iceberg Project, a website dedicated to Italian language learning and all things Italian, contacted me recently to do an interview about ORIGINS ITALY, Italian genealogy, and learning Italian as a second language. I was thrilled to speak with Cher and hardly ever need an excuse to chat about Italian family history research or Italy in general! Click here to hear ORIGINS ITALY’s feature on the Iceberg Project Podcast. I hope you enjoy it! Cher Hale does…
The best part of being an Italian genealogist is traveling to Italy on behalf of clients to conduct research using Italian records that are not online, microfilmed or easily accessible from the United States. Being enchanted by the land and its people is an inherent benefit of professional Italian genealogy research. In 2013, I took two trips to Italy spending about three and a half months in beautiful Italia. The more I see of Italy, the more I love this…