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 é um palestrante especialista em genealogia, professor e autor, e morador de Salt Lake City, Utah. Ele cresceu em Juneau, Alasca, onde começou a pesquisar a história de sua família, com a idade de 9 anos, sob a tutela de sua avó. Aos 16 anos, ele estava trabalhando para uma empresa de genealogia em Salt Lake City. Kyle começou a viajar regularmente para a Europa para fazer pesquisas genealógicas em 1993. He is one of the co-founders of ProGenealogists. His research specialties include Irish, French, Eastern European, and Catholic research, as well as 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.

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.