Please join us for our monthly meeting at which our guest speaker, Margaret Rose Fortier, will present Andiamo! Finding Your Italian Family, in person. She will cover Italian history, Italian immigration, Italians in the US, and how to find your Italian family. Learn why your great-uncle had five cousins named Vincenzo and what they changed their name to in the United States.

Margaret Rose Fortier, named for her grandmothers and inspired by her mother’s phenomenal memory, is a professional genealogical researcher, writer, and speaker. She focuses on Italian – American and French – Canadian ancestry in New England. She serves as vice-president of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, Inc. and lives in Medford, Massachusetts. She is a member of the Italian Genealogical Society of America, the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the New England Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists.