Ep. 78 - Which "John Smith" Is Yours? DNA To The Rescue! And A New Season of "Who Do You Think You Are?!"
Fisher opens the show with the story of his third great grandfather. He was a substitute soldier in the War of 1812. Or was he? Listen to the unusual find from the National Archives and you decide....
9 Mar 201553min
Ep. 77 - NEHGS Genealogist Lindsay Fulton on the Ins and Outs of Joining Lineage Societies… And A Canadian-American Listener Gets Research Help From a Scottish Monk!
Fisher opens the show with information about the Preserve the Pensions program which is seeking private funding to digitize and make available for free all War of 1812 pension files. In Family Histoi...
2 Mar 201553min
Ep. 76 - Roots Tech Wrap: Where is Family History Going Now?
Fisher opens the show with a quick overview of his Roots Tech experience, where over 22,000 people attended in three days. (Roots Tech is the world's largest family history conference.) In Family Hi...
23 Feb 201553min
Ep. 75 - History of a People Found in a Trunk!
Fisher opens the show talking about the upcoming Roots Tech convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. First Lady Laura Bush headlines the speakers. Fisher then discusses the loss of over a million records...
9 Feb 201553min
Ep. 74 - One Aspect Of Your Ancestors' Lives You Should Pay More Attention To!
Fisher opens the show with the story of a man who the government refuses to allow to pay his taxes. Why? It has everything to do with a record family historians are more than a little familiar with....
4 Feb 201553min
Ep. 73 - More SWEDES! The basics of Swedish research.
Fisher opens the show with the latest on the strange case of Paul Fronczak, who grew up believing he had been kidnapped as a baby and then returned to his parents in Chicago. But, a 2012 DNA test rev...
28 Jan 201553min
Ep. 72 - Countdown to Roots Tech / FGS Conference... What's In It For You?
Fisher opens the show with word of the discovery of photos of third great grandparents of an American president? Who were they and is he? Fisher will tell you. Across the pond, 41 million wills dat...
19 Jan 201553min
Ep. 71 - Born In A Hotel and SOLD As A Baby!
Fisher opens the show with fascinating news out of Boston where a box, hidden in the cornerstone of the Massachusetts State House by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, was opened. What was in it? And wha...
13 Jan 201553min
