Episode 425 - Letter of Formerly Enslaved Man Leads To Ancestry Reality Movie / A Visit With The World's First "Floral Genealogist!"

Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. Military expert David reveals he never heard about the subject of his first story in Family Histoire News. We bet you haven't either. Then, you might be surprised that "mullet" hair styles have an ancient history. David will explain. The guys then talk ancestral pocket watches. Next, here about an escape destination for escapees from slavery, largely in the 18th century. It's in Florida, where excavation is facing a major complication. Finally, a news story out of Iraq provides a tourist warning. David explains.

Fisher then visits with Crista Cowan from sponsor Ancestry. Crista reveals Ancestry's newest databases. She then talks about a new movie called "A Dream Delivered- The Lost Letters of Hawkins Wilson." The film is based on the real letters of the formerly enslaved man, Hawkins Wilson, who wrote to the Freedmen's Bureau following the Civil War, hoping to reunite with his family. For him, it never happened. But 150 years later, his dream has come true for his descendants, and those of his siblings. Hear about it, then watch it!

Next, Fisher talks "floral genealogy" with Barbara Holloway Smith, a horticulturalist with Clemson Extension in South Carolina. Barbara, a passionate genealogist, has tracked down plants… planted by her ancestors… and plants and maintains them in a garden of her own… some going back to her great great grandparents!

David then returns for another round of Ask Us Anything, answering your questions.

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