May 8, 2017
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. David shares some great stories this week, including one about a family that found a funeral home had dressed the wrong corpse in their mother’s clothes, a man who found his father’s and uncle’s letters homes from World War II on eBay, and the story of a Saxon king whose remains may have been found under a tennis court! (Here we go again!) David’s spotlighted blogger this week is FamilySearch.org/blog/en which discusses, among many other things, how to get started in indexing old records.
Next, Fisher is going DNA crazy this week, having shipped out three
Y-chromosome DNA kits to close and distant relatives. He’s
pondering using a mitochondrial test for one of his wife’s lines.
“Not so fast!” says LegacyTree.com’s Paul Woodbury. The DNA
specialist shares some important insight on when you should and
when you shouldn’t attempt to connect ancestors through this female
direct line DNA method.
Then, Carrie Christos of Cincinnati, Ohio talks about her “Big Fat
Greek genealogical experience.” She shares the challenges she
faced, the serendipity that (as is often the case) kicked in, and
the new relationships she has developed. Carrie will tell you how
it all happened.
Then, Tom Perry, the Preservation Authority from TMCPlace.com is
geeked out over a remarkable time-lapse video he found. It will
inspire you to learn how you can do the same. Tom also talks about
some local digitizers that he feels will do a great job for you in
several states.
That’s all the week on Extreme Genes, America’s Family History
Show!