Extreme Genes7 Sep 2020

Episode 341 - Kitty Cooper Talks Why Note Longest DNA Segments / Ask The Experts- Kitty Cooper On Her Personal Favorite Breakthrough

Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. The guys open talking about some fascinating finds in Fisher's family this week. David then shares a great story about a man in Toronto who stumbled upon a World War I era Bible. Hear what he did with it. Then, a school teacher has an interesting hobby involving used books and what she finds in them. Find out what she does next. Next, archaeology has uncovered an unlikely Viking site. (You won't believe where it is!) Finally, hear about the man with a rich criminal record who set himself up for arrest for decades old crimes by taking a DNA test to check out his ethnicity!

Then, Fisher begins his two part visit with Kitty Cooper. Kitty is a DNA specialist and talks about why she thinks Ancestry's new feature, showing the longest DNA segments among your matches, is a good one.

Kitty then shares her greatest personal find with Ask The Experts, and how she solved the mystery.

David then returns for two questions in Ask Us Anything. The first involves researching the history of a house. The second concerns a listener's problem searching old newspapers. Hear what the guys suggest she should do.

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

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