LYNN SERAFINN is an author and genealogist specialising in the families of the Trentino, Italy, where her father was born.
Since 2015, she has constructed hundreds of family trees for clients, tracing the lives of tens of thousands of Trentini as far back as the early 1300s.
Lynn is especially passionate about the medieval origins and early histories of Trentino surnames. She has written about dozens of them, most of which are available as eBooks from her Digital Shop. She is currently preparing several print books as well, and her long-term writing project is about the ‘miracles’ at Santa Croce del Bleggio in Val Giudicarie in the 1620s.
ADDITIONAL BIO INFORMATION
Born in the Trentino diaspora of Brooklyn, Lynn was raised on Long Island during the baby boom era.
After attending the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, she went on to earn a Bachelor’s degree in Music History at the University of Texas at Austin. In the latter part of the 1970s, she did extensive graduate work there in Asian languages, ethnomusicology and social anthropology, and was awarded a foreign language grant to study for a year in Calcutta, India.
She spent more than three decades as a freelance musician in a wide range of genres, and had a chart-topping electronic dance track in 1994.
Lynn came to live in London in 1999. Between 1999 and 2007, she earned an MA in adult education and distance learning, and she spent eight years as a college lecturer in music technology and media.
In 2005, she received the ‘Microsoft Innovative Teacher of the Year Award’ in Further Education for her use of creative technologies with her college students. That same year, she moved to Bedford, Bedfordshire, where she still lives.
In 2007, she left her career in the educational sector. Between 2008 and 2009, she became a certified life coach through the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), and also completed CTI’s Leadership programme.
From 2009 to 2013, Lynn worked as a marketing consultant for authors and small business owners. In 2011, she published The 7 Graces of Marketing: How to Heal Humanity and the Planet by Changing the Way We Sell, which addresses the economic, environmental and human impact of unethical marketing practices. The book received several independent book awards and became an Amazon #1 bestseller.
In 2014, she reunited with many ‘long-lost’ cousins in her father’s native village in Trentino. The experience led her to switch careers to genealogy, in the hope that her work could help others reconnect with their ancestral history.
Now in her 70s, Lynn continues to devote her life to her genealogy clients and to her research and writing about Trentino surnames and local history.
She is also an avid fan of Korean dramas and, continuing her love for Asian languages, is currently studying Korean.
To talk with Lynn about tracing your own Trentino ancestry, please first look at her services page, then feel free to drop her a line via the contact form.
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