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Jacqueline Jannotta

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Let's Leave the Country!: A Guide to Your Family Year Abroad

Let's Leave the Country!: A Guide to Your Family Year Abroad

Extended time outside your country is a fun, rewarding way to gain a fresh perspective and renewed vitality for you and your family.

2019

Jacqueline Jannotta

Jacqueline Jannotta

Stories

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Globetrotters

To Travel or Not to Travel — Is That the Question?

How I’m navigating the ethical dilemma of travel.

6 min readNov 29, 2022

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Person silhouetted on a ruin somewhere, in a thinking position.

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Genealogy: Find Your Past

The Day Grandma Learned the Truth About the Nazis

The importance of drawing out — and sharing — family stories

5 min read6 days ago

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A black & white vintage photo of barbed wire tangled up around a post that is holding up the remnants of a barbed wire fence.

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Globetrotters

Falling for Oregon and the Turbulent Stories Behind Her Beauty

(And you better pronounce it like the locals: OR-eh-guhn.)

6 min readMar 18, 2024

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Falling water in motion over a portion of a river. To the left is a branch with leaves.

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GenTales

Who Left a Baby at Our Doorstep?

How a surprise DNA match redefined our family story.

9 min readFeb 19, 2024

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Black and white photo with closeup of an infant’s hand in an oversized sleeve. The baby’s sleeve with hand is surrounded by a blanket with non discernable pattern in gray tones.

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Genealogy: Find Your Past

Create the Perfect Roadmap for a Rewarding Ancestry Trip

Learn from my mistakes (and successes!) so you can have an epic ancestry adventure.

6 min readJan 30, 2024

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Antique map with old photos, notebook, magnifying glass and camera.

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Globetrotters

Digging Up Roots in Italy: The Secrets Grandpa’s Village Gave to Me

A hand-written journal offers a trip back in time, before selfies and “food porn” ruled the day

9 min readJan 23, 2024

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A collage of pages, photos, Italian document, postcards of Italy, a book that says “Castel San Vincenzo” and a journal with handwritten pages.

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Globetrotters

Sole Searching in Slovenia: A Journey of Blistering, Blustering Beauty

How the Juliana Trail taught me the value of good hiking shoes

9 min readNov 4, 2023

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Image of Author’s husband and friends walking the Juliana Trail in a green meadow with alps in the background.

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Globetrotters

Discovering Trieste: Unconventional Travel Wisdom from the Outer Edge of Italy

Understanding the unfamiliar and the uncomfortable.

8 min readOct 6, 2023

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Photo of Trieste’s Piazza dell’Unita d’Italia from behind a tri-arched dome, at sunset with a pink & blue sky in the background.

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Globetrotters

Navigating a Healthy Life with Wanderlust During the Age of Covid

Or how I learned to stop worrying and love travel anyway.

7 min readSep 15, 2023

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Navigating a Healthy Life with Wanderlust During the Age of Covid

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Language Lab

Finding the Best Foreign Language Teacher on Your Road to Fluency

Four tips to guide you along the way…

7 min readSep 1, 2023

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several diverse adults, sitting in a room. Each is holding up a sign with varying language greetings (Good day or Hello in French, Italian, German, Thai, Arabic)

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Jacqueline Jannotta

Jacqueline Jannotta

Book Author

Author (“Let’s Leave the Country!”), ex-Hollywood. I write to help us shift from Me to We, toward a better future. BecomingBetterPeople.us.

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