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Travel Your Tree: Where Ancestry Meets Adventure

Lisa Vogele, a professional genealogist, Certified Travel Associate, and Chief Tree Climber at Travel Your Tree: Where Ancestry Meets Adventure. Lisa helps clients discover their roots throughout Europe by blending her genealogy research with designing unforgettable heritage trips. She's the author of "Food & Folklore: A Year of Italian Festivals" and holds a Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University.

When she’s not happily caught up in researching Italian or Irish records, you'll find her speaking around the country on heritage travel, genealogy, Italian, and Italian festivals or leading research tours to Ireland and Italy. Combining genealogy and travel is Lisa’s passion!

• Certificate in Genealogical Research (Boston University)
• Certified Travel Advisor (CTA)

Genealogy Research and Travel Services

• Genealogy Research (Focus: United States, Italy & Ireland)
• Genealogy Coaching Consultation
• Travel Planning
• Custom Trips & Tours to Europe
• Group Travel in Europe
• Heritage Festivals
• On-Site Research in Europe

Geographic Specialties

United States, Europe, Italy, Ireland, Germany

• Point of Origin: How to Find Your Ancestral Village
• Travel Your Tree: Walking in Your Ancestors’ Footsteps
• DNA, Deaths, and Double Lives: A Finnish Immigrant's Hidden Past
• Moonshine & Coal Mines: Unraveling Stories & Secrets to Reconstruct a Family Through Oral History Documents and DNA
• From Townlands to Tenements: Two Case Studies of Finding Hidden Family and Origins in NYC, Italy, and Ireland
• Navigating Ancestral Arrivals: A Genealogist's Treasure Map to Immigration Records
• Genealogy 102: Going Deeper with Skills, Sources & Strategies
• From Italy to the Wild West: Italian Pioneer Communities in Colorado
• Going Local Heritage Festivals, Markets & Museums in Europe
• Planning a Family Reunion: At Home and Abroad
• Your DNA Kit and Match List: Basic Tips, Myths & Strategies

• 1 February 2025 (Saturday) @ 3:00 PM ET Travel Your Tree: Walking in Ancestors’ Footsteps – Genealogical Society of Greater Miami
• 21 January 2025 (Tuesday) @ 10:00 AM PT Walking in Your Ancestors’ Footsteps – San Ramon Valley Genealogical Society (Zoom online)
• 16 January 2025 (Thursday) @ 6:00 PM ET Heritage Travel: Top 10 Tips for Walking in Ancestral Footsteps – Allen County Public Library – Free live event!
• 16 November 2024 (Saturday) From Italy to the Wild West: Italian Pioneer Communities in Colorado – part of the ITALIAN GENEALOGY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
• 20 November 2024 (Wednesday) @ 7:00 PM PT Travel Your Tree: How to Walk in Ancestors Footsteps – South Bay Cities Genealogical Society (Zoom online) Free live event, replay available to members!
• 21 November 2024 (Thursday) @ 7:00 PM PT Travel Your Tree: Walking in Your Ancestors Footsteps – Marin County Genealogical Society
• 12 October 2024 (Saturday) @ 11:00 AM ET Ancestral Adventures: Crafting Your Ultimate Italian Heritage Journey – Register here: Italian Genealogical Group
• 17 September 2024 (Tuesday) @ 10:00 AM PT Finding Your Ancestral Village – San Ramon Valley Genealogical Society (Zoom Online)
• 27 July 2024 (Saturday) @ 1:30 PM MT Point of Origin: How to Find Your Ancestral Village – W.I.S.E. Family History Society – Olde Towne Arvada Library (Hybrid)
• 20 April 2024 (Wednesday) @ 1:00 PM PT Heritage Travel: How to Walk in Ancestors Footsteps – Whittier Area Genealogical Society (Hybrid)
• 26 March 2024 (Tuesday) @ 6:00 PM PT Heritage Travel: How to Walk in Ancestors Footsteps – Conejo Valley Genealogical Society (Zoom Online)
• 2 April 2024 (Tuesday) @ 7:00 PM MT Travel Your Tree: Expert Tips for Genealogists & Family Historians – Boulder Genealogical Society (In person only – Boulder, CO)
• 12 March 2024 Point of Origin: How to Find Your Ancestral Village – Albany County Genealogical Society (WY)
• 20 January 2024 Point of Origin: How to Find Your Ancestral Village – Conejo Valley Genealogical Society (CA)
• 8 August 2023 Heritage Travel: Walking in Ancestral Footsteps (Zoom) – Ela Area Public Library (libnet.info)
• 15 July 2023 Lisa will participate in the heritage travel segment of America’s #1 travel radio show RMWorldTravel with Robert & Mary Carey and Rudy Maxa
• 25 June 2022 Preparing to Travel for Genealogy – Welsh, Irish, Scottish and English Family History Society
• 18 June 2022 Planning a Family Reunion: At Home and Abroad, Colorado Genealogical Society
•  1 May 2022 Denver Travel & Adventure Show HERITAGE TRAVEL: WALKING IN YOUR ANCESTORS’ FOOTSTEPS
• 1 October 2020 Heritage Travel: Traveling in your Ancestors’ Footsteps at the Travel & Adventure Shows with Mickela Mallozzi of the Travel Barefeet TV Series
• 7-8 March Washington DC Saturday with Dr. Gina Paige, co-founder AfricanAncestry.com
• 22-23 February 2020 Denver Travel & Adventure Show with Kathy McCabe of the Dream of Italy TV Series
• 26 January 2020 New York City Sunday with Val D’Elia of TravelWithVal.com & BalticHolidays.com This event was part of the New York Times Travel Show
• 18 January 2020 San Diego Travel & Adventure Show Saturday with Mickela Mallozzi of the Travel Barefeet TV Series
• 11 January 2020 Boston Travel & Adventure Show Saturday with Mickela Mallozzi of the Travel Barefeet TV Series
• 26 January 2019 New York Times Travel Show – Heritage Travel: Walking in Your Ancestors’ Footsteps
• 18 October 2017 Boulder, Colorado – Changes in Latitude Travel Store – Genealogy Travel
• 25 March 2017 Philadelphia – Travel & Adventure Show
• 15 March Pitkin County Library – Aspen, Colorado
• 16 February 2017 Edwards, Colorado – The Bookworm Of Edwards
• 15 February 2017 Boulder, Colorado – Changes In Latitude – Travel Store
• 10 February 2017 Denver, Colorado – Dante Alighieri Society Of Denver
• 28 January 2017 New York City – New York Times Travel Show
• 1 October 2016 Meet & Greet – Book Signing
• 21 September 2016 Boulder, Colorado – Changes in Latitude travel store
• 17 June 2016 Aspen, Colorado – Book signing at Explore Booksellers