Episode 383 - Experiencing Your Ancestors' Experiences / Ancestry App Redesigned, Plus New Databases

Host Scott Fisher opens the show. (David Allen Lambert is off this week.) In Family Histoire News, an Irish woman who accurately predicted an Atlantic storm, resulting in a key postponement of D-Day, has been honored by the US House of Representatives. Hear more of her story. Then, descendants of Betsy Ross, who legend says stitched the first American flag, have made a tremendous gift to a Philadelphia museum. Hear what you can now see. Next, some Senators of both parties are actually working together! They are trying to preserve Revolutionary War battle sites and connect them with a trail. Catch where this proposed project is intended to come together. Of course we all know Lizzy Borden is believed to have knocked off her parents in 1892. Now the house she allegedly did it in has been purchased. Find out what the new owners plan to do with it. Leonardo DaVinci's known living relative count has increased seven fold! Find out about the new study that, of course, involves Y-DNA.

Next, Sunny Morton visits the show again. This time she tells us about her recent adventure following in the footsteps of her ancestors. Hear where she went, why, and what she learned.

Crista Cowan from (sponsors) Ancestry.com has some great news in the third segment. The Ancestry app has been redesigned! Crista will tell you about all the wowy features, plus fill you in on Ancestry's most recently released databases.

Fisher then handles two questions on Ask Us Anything, one concerning "reverse genealogy," and the other on midwife birthing books.

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