As an avid traveler and the manager of Ancestry’s travel program, Kyle Betit enjoys taking people on ancestral journeys, whether it is on a group heritage tour or to visit their exact ancestral homes. Kyle is an expert genealogist, lecturer, and author residing in Salt Lake City, Utah. He grew up in Juneau, Alaska, where he started researching his family history at the age of 9, under his grandmother’s tutelage. By age 16 he was working for a genealogy company in Salt Lake City. Kyle began traveling regularly to Europe for genealogy research in 1993. He is one of the co-founders of ProGenealogists. His research interests include Ireland, Eastern Europe, Catholic research, and genetic genealogy.

Kyle has appeared on the “Who Do You Think You Are?” television program with Bill Paxton, Trisha Yearwood, Chris Noth, and Scott Foley, among others, and he has worked on many other episodes, such as those for Matthew Broderick, Rosie O’Donnell, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jason Sudeikis, Chelsea Handler, and Cindy Crawford. He was a co-editor of the popular genealogy journal The Irish At Home and Abroad, and he is co-author of A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Irish Ancestors. He lectures widely in North America and Europe.

Lucianna Ravasio is a Genealogist with AncestryProGenealogists and has been a professional genealogist for ten years. She works on a variety of sessions, including Irish immigration and Italian sessions. In addition, she has conducted research and collaborated on TV shows. She studied Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame and earned her master's degree in Social Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast, conducting her fieldwork in Puglia, Italy. Before joining the team at Ancestry, she worked in probate genealogy for several years. Though originally from Ohio, she has lived in Greece, Japan, Italy, Canada, and Northern Ireland and currently resides in Ireland. She loves solving puzzles, whether grappling with sudoku, KenKen, or genealogy roadblocks.

Jon Lambert is Senior Director of Global Sales and Marketing for Ancestry. Jon and his team work with clients worldwide to help them discover, preserve, and share their family histories. He believes that everyone deserves to find their place in their family story through research and heritage travel. His family history clients include genealogy enthusiasts, political figures, Hollywood actors, and business. Jon is a lifelong resident of Salt Lake City, His family roots extend into England, Scotland, and Northwestern Europe.

Erika Manternach is a storyteller at heart, with a diverse background in broadcast journalism, education, and family history. Her pursuits have always centered on writing and sharing engaging stories and she is passionate about helping people preserve memories by conducting effective oral history interviews.

She started her career in TV news, working for more than a decade as a reporter and anchor in South Dakota, Indiana, and Utah. She shifted to teaching journalism and interviewing skills in 2009. She joined AncestryProGenealogists® in 2015 to help create clients' family history narrative offerings. She has since written hundreds of family stories and legacy books, many of which included excerpts from oral history interviews.

Erika holds bachelor’s degrees in communication and music from the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota—her home state—and a Certificate in Copyediting from the University of California-San Diego. She believes well-crafted storytelling can change families—and therefore the whole world—in uplifting and meaningful ways.