Episode 151- LegacyTree.com's Paul Woodbury on Planning Your Next Genealogy Trip / PA Woman Receives Long Missing Relative's Ashes

08/08/16 • 49 min

Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. Fisher and David discuss a 19th century news article about a woman who was nearly buried alive, because they thought she was dead! David then reveals information about a remarkable collection in the Smithsonian... 17,000 human remains! Might your ancestor be among them?! One was a recent donation of a man who died in 1866. Wait until you hear his story. David then reveals a new online map of London with over a quarter million images tied to places in the city. David then shares with you a site with the names of every Olympian since 1896! Is there are relative of yours to be found? David then offers another Tip of the Week, and another free guest user database from NEHGS. Fisher then visits with a Pennsylvania woman named Becky Perigo. Becky's great grandfather's brother fell off the family map about a century ago, and was last believed living in the northwest. A year ago she received an email that she suspected was a scam involving the name of this uncle. It was totally legit. And what an adventure it has led to! Hear Becky's story in segment 2. Paul Woodbury from LegacyTree.com then returns to the show. Paul has just completed a research trip to France and offers some terrific tips on preparing for your next research journey, especially one to Europe. And as always, Tom Perry from TMCPlace.com, the Preservation Authority, is here to talk about ways to not only preserve your photos, videos, films, and documents, but also how to make them more usable. This segment is best described as "Congratulations! You've digitized all your stuff... what now?!" Tom and Fisher give you some thoughts on that issue. That's all this week on Extreme Genes, America's Family History Show!

Previous Episode

Episode 150 - Genealogy & The Harry Potter Back Stories/ CEO Bruce Buzbee on the Roots of Roots Magic!

Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, talking about the benefits of Pokemon Go in introducing younger people to historic sites, and David’s horror over a Pokemon “Gym” at a site near him! Listen to David to find out what it is. David then shares an exciting announcement from FindMyPast, based in England. Exciting, that is, if you have English ancestors on the “other side” of the law. David also welcomes Extreme Genes listeners to visit him at the upcoming FGS Conference. He also shares another Tip of the Week and NEHGS free user database.

In the second segment, Fisher visits with Bruce Buzbee, founder and CEO of Roots Magic, an ancestral database program that has unique funneling abilities with numerous partners you know well. How does it “funnel” and from (and to) whom? Bruce will explain, as well as give you a glimpse into the not so distant future of Roots Magic.

Next, Fisher visits with Lindsay Fulton, Director of Research Services, at NEHGS. Lindsay, a self-proclaimed “nerd,” explains how J.K. Rowling uses genealogical research and real (deceased) people, to create the back stories for her characters in Harry Potter as well as the upcoming film, “Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them.” Lindsay will explain how you can use these same techniques to write your own family story, either as completely factual or as “historic fiction.”

Finally, Tom Perry, the Preservation Authority, visits with Fisher about an aspect of preservation you may never have considered before... shipping! What are the best days of the week to ship film or video for digitizing? And why should you double box, AND address, your package? Tom will make sense of all of this for you. And what he has to say could save you from massive heart ache!

That’s all this week on Extreme Genes, America’s Family History Show!

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Episode 152: Little Known UK Courting & Marriage Traditions / Finding the Family of An Adoptee's Murdered Birth Mother

Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.com. Fisher and David discuss the problem with the Australian census currently being taken, in part, on line. Listen to the segment to hear the issue that may plague the United States' next census in 2020. David then reveals that New York City is hoping you will soon better appreciate their historic figure statues by making them talk! How? Listen to the segment. Then the guys will tell you how your communications may find their way into the Library of Congress. (You won't believe this project!) David then shares another terrific tip and free guest user database from NEHGS. Next, Fisher visits with Craig Foster from FamilySearch.org. Craig shares some of the United Kingdom's fascinating courting and marriage customs from the 17th and 18th centuries and how and why they started and ended. Some of them came here to the United States. You'll want to hear this! Kate Eakman of LegacyTree.com then returns to the show, sharing with Fisher the story of how she was able to identify several generations of the family of an adopted man's birth mother, who had been murdered years ago in Texas. The story is fascinating but the process should give you some ideas for your own research. Tom Perry, the Preservation Authority from TMCPlace.com, then joins Fisher to reveal his full endorsement of a new product for editing your family videos. In the past Tom has lamented the demise of Cinematize which in its day had no equal. But according to Tom, this new product sends Cinematize back to the stone age! Listen to find out what it is, and how inexpensively you can obtain it. That's all this week on Extreme Genes, America's Family History Show!