Find Your Ancestor’s Old World Town of Origin – An Interview with Rich Venezia

A Free, Monthly Genealogy Podcast

Did you know that Family Tree has a FREE podcast? We do! Our podcast began back in 2008 and is still going strong with a new episode every month. Join our host, Lisa Louise Cooke, for interviews and tips from genealogy experts on a variety of research topics. Listen online, on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts!

Make a Family Recipe Cookbook

Memories of food are an important part of family history: cooking with your mother, holiday meals at your grandparents, or snacks with your siblings. Many of these tasty memories come with recipes. If you want to organize and share your family’s food past then join Gena Philibert-Ortega for this one-week workshop to learn about the connection between food history and genealogy and get ideas for how to organize (or create) a collection of family recipes.

New Episode! Find Your Ancestor’s Old World Town of Origin

In the latest episode of the Family Tree Podcast, Lisa Louise Cooke is joined by professional genealogist Rich Venezia, who offers some valuable research tips that will help you track down your ancestor’s Old World town of origin and find meaningful records. Plus: learn how to clean tombstones efficiently and respectfully and how you can use DeadFred.com to search for old photos of your ancestors.

Ultimate Guide to Genealogy Records eBook

Discover the best genealogy records! This ebook features guides to finding and using the most essential genealogy records, from census returns to passenger lists to birth, marriage and death records. Inside, you’ll find details on the most useful resources for each kind of record, plus how you can read records, interpret them and apply the information you find in them to your family tree.

The Family Tree Podcast Listening Guide

New to the podcast? Looking for a new research resource? This guide to the Family Tree Podcast highlights the best episodes from the show’s past ten years, as well as a few favorite episodes from our host, Lisa Louise Cooke. We’ve also listed our best episodes on specific topics to make it easy to find the information you need for your family history research.