If you want to learn How To Research Family Roots, The Genealogy Reporter is good place to start. Bob talks to Amie about how she started in genealogy, her family, tips and Familysearch.org Amie Bowser Tennant is The Genealogy Reporter bringing you genealogy news and more. She is a professional genealogist, nationally known speaker, and internationally known blogger. Amie provides blog and written content for many top companies and societies in the genealogy field. Some of her recent publications can be found in the NGS Magazine, the Ohio Genealogical Society News and the OGS Quarterly, and at Legacy News, just to name a few! You can also see her webinars via Legacy Family Tree Webinars, here. Amie’s blog is www.TheGenealogyReporter.com; youtube channel is www.youtube.com/c/thegenealogyreporter; and on Facebook at The Genealogy Reporter; and Instagram and Twitter @thegenreporter Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=30519446) Podcast Click here to join our group on Facebook Video Visit Our Shop

Check Out Our Shop Italian American Stories is a fun interview with author and columnist Linda Stasi. We discussed everything from Italian Cowboys in Colorado, to exorcist priests, to the Lemon Ice King in Corona, to the Scotto family cookbook and our NY Daily News connection! Not to mention her fabulous books. The popular and well-read columnist for the New York Daily News, (now at-large), and previous- ly for the the New York Post, Linda Stasi, was also an on-camera TV co-host with Mark Simone on NY 1 -Spectrum “What a Week!” For 15 years. In 2020, she was appointed to the Mother Cabrini Commission and the Board of The Civil Rights Museum. Brash, funny and opinionated, the acerbic Stasi’s first novel, The Sixth Station, published in Jan- uary of 2013 by Tor-Forge Books hit Amazon’s top 25, and was hailed as “A helluva religious thriller,” by Nelson DeMille, while Steve Berry said, “You’ll be grabbing the pages so right your knuckles will turn white!” Stasi’s anxiously awaited sequel,“Book of Judas” was published Fall 2017, received acclaim from mega best selling authors such as Sherrilyn Kenyon, who called it, “An innovative master- piece!” Stasi has appeared on TV talk shows and news channels such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, The O’Reilly Factor, Hardball, Good Day New York, The View as well as CNN, Fox News, MSNBC news shows, and many others. Stasi has also authored five non-fiction books – Looking Good Is the Best Revenge, A Field Guide to Impossible Men, Simply Beautiful, Boomer Babes, and Scotto Sunday Suppers. Not afraid to say what’s on her mind in her popular column in the New York Daily News has reached more than 600,000 in a single day. She was named “One of the Fifty Most Powerful Women in NYC” and has won numerous awards including “Best Columnist” by the Newswomen’s Club of NY, “Best Humor Columnist,” and “Woman of the Year” by the Boys Town of Italy for her charitable work such as driving a tractor-trailer in an 18-truck convoy from NYC to the gulf states with relief supplies for Hurri- cane Katrina victims. She and her husband, Sid Davidoff, were named by “City & State”in 2017 as one of NYC’s 100 top power couples. Lindastasi.comTwitter: @lindastasi Podcast Click here to join our group on Facebook Video

Visit our Shop Fun interview with Bob Semenza about researching his Italian Roots and growing up Italian American. Robert Semenza has always considered himself fortunate to have been brought up in what may have been, in his mind, the “last best of all times”-“an era that spanned only a little more than a decade and a half, from the early forties to the mid-fifties. Bob’s Website — Times With Poppy Podcast Click here to join our group on Facebook Youtube Video

What’s the reason behind the opening of a family history museum as the Museo del Cognome? Which archives to visit and which records collections to check? Stories and tips to avoid getting lost. This and much more in this latest podcast. Michele Cartusciello is a professional genealogist and enthusiast in local traditions and cultures too. My interest in family history started in 1984 when I first stepped into the Registry Office of my hometown, Padula, a beautiful medieval town located 100 km far Salerno, in Campania, Italy. My quest to learn more about my lineage and to create my family tree led me to visit plenty of archives such as registry offices, parishes, and state archives. My dream of a lifetime came true in 2012 when I opened the Museo del Cognome – Family History Museum.  museodelcognome@gmail.com  http://museodelcognome.it/ Podcast English Video English Podcast Italiano Video Italiano Click here to join our group on Facebook

Visit our shop Catch this great interview with Ilene and Gary Modica who downsized, packed up and spent a year touring Italy.  Their book and blog chronicles their journey and quest for Italian citizenship. It Started in 2016 In anticipation of our citizenship, we sold our family home in January 2016, along with most of our possessions. We downsized so much that everything we own fits into four large green Rubbermaid tubs! You know the kind–that you store your Christmas decorations in? It’s funny how much stuff you accumulate and how much you don’t need. Dual Citizenship It has been a true journey through mounds of paperwork and a great deal of time (did I mention money too?) Our initial application at the Los Angeles Italian Consulate was in November 2015 where we provided documents with translations, apostilles, etc. After a period of time with no communication, we received an email that we had to amend many documents. You can read more about our process on our dual citizenship posts. https://ouritalianjourney.comhttp://www.facebook.com/ouritalianjourneyhttp://www.instagram.com/italianjourney/http://www.twitter.com/IleneModicahttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfe0md6bVa2-JKpufLS_J-ghttp://www.pinterest.com/imodica Leave a review: https://tinyurl.com/OIJBookReviewBook newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hiVbFn   Podcast Video Click here to join our group on Facebook