Extreme Genes

Slave research is hard enough, and this little nugget, unfortunately, might make it harder. Not all slave names come from the most recent slaveholder. Fisher shares some other possibilities.

15 Jul 202349s

The settling of the west wasn't much unlike the settling of colonial America a century or two earlier. And as people came, more and more lines were drawn. Fisher shares just a few so you know what to ...

12 Jul 202355s

Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. David shares one of his great finds from his re...

10 Jul 202344min

War, population growth and shifting can all contribute to boundary changes. And boundary changes mean that, even if your ancestors stayed in the same place, their records could be hiding in many place...

8 Jul 20231min

Fisher had given up on finding the parents of an elusive ancestor when he took one last step before closing the book on the case. And it made all the difference in the world!

5 Jul 20231min

Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England History Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. The guys open the show talking about a woman wh...

3 Jul 202344min

Females ancestors are sometimes difficult to find. Fisher shares a few thoughts on other ways to look for them.

1 Jul 202359s

Struggling to figure out where your ancestor's Social Security records went? They might not have been there at all because things were different before 1951!

28 Jun 202352s