Jun 30, 2015
Fisher and David
Allen Lambert open the show with great news about FamilySearch's
announcement about the new indexing project for the Freedmen's
Bureau records... the largest collection of records of freed
slaves. What does this mean and how many records are
involved? Listen and find out! Then David shares
exciting Independence Day news... free access to some of NEHGS'
earliest records from the Great Migration. How can you look
for your ancestors in this great database for free? David
will fill you in. David also has another great Tech Tip of
the week for indexing your own personal records, making it easy
even for those of us who aren't very "tech savvy."
In the second segment, Fisher visits with Gene
Williams who, at age 19, was informed he had been switched at birth
with another boy! But it wasn't until decades later that Gene
went to work to find out how real this information was. Hear
about Gene's journey and how he learned the truth.
Ron Arons of
"Mind Maps for Genealogy" then joins Fisher to talk about the
discovery of his ancestor in Sing Sing Prison, and all the records
connected to it. Ron will share with you where to research
your jail birds and perhaps other "black sheep" ancestors.
Then Tom Perry,
our Preservation Authority, answers another listener question about
old home movies and syncing up matching audio.
It's all this
week on Extreme Genes, America's Family History Show!