Extreme Genes: Family History Radio

Hank Jones talks about his collection of stories of strange things that have happened when doing genealogy and family history work. Sharon Manson discusses her journey that helped her learn why her parents would tell her never to ask grandma question

The one and only CeCe Moore joins the show. CeCe brings us up to date on what’s happening in her world and explains why she feels that her work solving cold cases is exonerating more people than it is finding guilty people.

We visit with Lisa Murphy of Orem, Utah, an Ordinary Person With An Extraordinary Find. Lisa’s grandfather was a family enigma. He died without ever telling anyone exactly where he was from, and very little about the family itself. Then comes DNA.

Tom received a Christmas gift a while back that gave him an odd ethnicity result. With the help of Legacy Tree Genealogists he learned the truth about his parentage. But the full story might well have been missed because of an unusual DNA match.

The guys begin with the story of an adjustment that was made on the headstone of Susan B. Anthony just in time for election day. Hear what it was and why it was done. Then, a Virginia State Senator has made a sad discovery on his own property.

Fisher visits with slavery expert Kenyatta Berry. They talk about Frederick Douglass and how he and several other formerly enslaved men travelled to England in the 1840s to create international pressure on the United States to end slavery.

Slavery expert Kenyatta Berry talks about formerly enslaved individuals who sailed to Britain in the late 1840s to reveal to the public there the horrors of slavery, and to create international pressure on the US to end it.

D. Joshua Taylor, President of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society joins Fisher to discuss the efforts of those tied to the New York Municipal Archives to license public records!

Fisher then visits with Paul Woodbury,. Paul shares an interesting technique he uses to rank your most important DNA matches across web sites, in some cases allowing for the varying algorithms the DNA companies use.

Fisher visits with Don LeClair and explains the near completion of an important Mayflower project three years in the making involving a partnership with two other important genealogical organizations. Researching your possible Mayflower ties