Fisher’s Top Tips #415r
What’s Going to Happen to Your Records and Heirlooms When You’re Gone?
Mar 25, 2023•46 sec
Extreme Genes
Extreme Genes is a genealogy show hosted by Fisher. Fisher has 30+ years of radio experience and has had a passion for genealogy since he was a teen. On Extreme Genes Fisher sets out to educate the audience on resources and techniques for completing any gaps found in your family tree. Each week Fisher interviews national experts in the field of genealogy as well as news related to all of our genealogy. Be sure to visit ExtremeGenes.com for all the latest on the show.
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Fisher’s Top Tips #414r
Can’t Find Your Key Record on Line? Try the Old-Fashioned Way
Mar 22, 2023•50 sec
Fisher’s Top Tips #423r
Ancestors love to play tricks on us as we trace them down… sometimes by disappearing from where we think they should be. Fisher explains where you might want to look next.
Mar 22, 2023•48 sec
Episode 453 - Woman’s Story About WW2 Hero Father She Never Knew / Sunny Morton Compares On Newspaper Sites
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org . The guys begin Family Histoire News with an incredible new discovery about the family of Leonard da Vinci. David has details. Then, it’s a new web project tracking the movement of the enslaved of South Carolina. SoldDownRiver.com is doing great work in identifying those who were enslaved and sold out of their families. A new organization is com...
Mar 20, 2023•44 min
Fisher’s Top Tips #413r
Got an Ancestor Who Served? Look to Military Records as a Source for Incredible Family Stories
Mar 18, 2023•43 sec
Fisher’s Top Tips #412r
Got DNA Skills? Become A Search Angel for Others!
Mar 15, 2023•47 sec
Episode 452 - RootsTech Live 2023 Recap: Sean Astin, Judy Russell, and More
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org . The guys first talk about the joy of being back at a live RootsTech conference. Fisher describes the horror of something American Idol legend, Jordin Sparks, said to him at the conference. In Family Histoire News, David describes the strange tale of a man who suspected his wife of cheating because the baby didn’t look like him. That was not the...
Mar 13, 2023•44 min
Fisher’s Top Tips #411r
Tracing Forward Can Yield Family History Gold
Mar 11, 2023•47 sec
Episode 426: Classic Rewind - DNA Detective CeCe Moore On The Growing Fertility Fraud Scandal
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with guest host David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org . David begins with a little history of Father’s Day, and how it started with the love of one woman for her dad. Dave then mentions meeting a man who actually saw Babe Ruth play when he was a boy. (Not many of those folks are around anymore!) DNA is helping the military and what they’re learning about some of those WW2 guys whose remai...
Mar 06, 2023•44 min
Episode 451 - Your DNA Guide: Diahan Southard Talking Process and RootsTech
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org . DNA occupies much of the show, so David begins with another DNA discovery that is rocking the worlds of two families… and it’s not the usual fare. Then, in 1872, a virus, that didn’t affect humans, shut down many of the major US cities. Catch what happened. The historic Old North Church which signaled Paul Revere on his famous ride is having an...
Feb 27, 2023•44 min
Episode 450 - Newspaper Stories and Tricks For Finding Them / Black History Month: Family Story Brought To Live By Artist
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org . The guys begin with swapping stories from their explorations of the past week. Fisher made a great find in an unusual way, and David ran into a cousin at a lecture whose head he caused to explode (not quite literally… but close!) with what he had to tell her. In Family Histoire News, David notes the appearance of Fred Miller on 60 Minutes recen...
Feb 20, 2023•44 min
Episode 449 - Mortality Schedules And What They Can Tell You / New NEHGS Genie Training Course For Kids
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org . The guys cover a lot of ground this week on Family Histoire News. Up first… a man who recently bought a photo of Queen Consort Camilla’s great great grandmother and gifted it to her. He has since received a letter back! Hear what she had to say. Then, a massive collection of letters from Chicago in the 19th century is heading to eBay. David exp...
Feb 13, 2023•44 min
Episode 448 - Accused and Hanged Witches and the Connecticut Exoneration Bills
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org . Fisher reveals David’s latest honor as a historian. Then, David shares his excitement over a gift he is receiving… a Bible gifted to a World War I soldier by a minister that caught a bullet that saved the man’s life. David has much more to say about it. Fisher next talks about a unique document he located tied to a relative jailed for forgery. ...
Feb 06, 2023•44 min
Episode 447 - Artificial Intelligence Comes To Family History / The Holocaust DNA Reunion Project Is Underway
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. The guys devote the entire first segment to a new artificial intelligence tool that is making headlines, ChatGPT . Fisher test drove it for family history possibilities and shares what he learned… with a combination of excitement, concern, and fascination. You’ll want to hear this. Then, over two segments, Jennifer Mendelsohn and Adina Newman, t...
Jan 30, 2023•44 min
Episode 446 - Finding Your Roots... Tech... What's Ahead for the TV Show and this Year's Conference
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org . The guys begin by talking about David’s recent gift from a relative of an 80-year-old multi-page letter that talks about his wife’s 2x great grandmother who took her first airplane ride at age 100 in 1938. Then, in Family Histoire News, a sunken barge has been found in Michigan that was once Al Capone’s floating speakeasy. David has details. Th...
Jan 23, 2023•44 min
Episode 445 - Pair Of DeWitt Descendants LITERALLY Dig Up Their Ancestor
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org . The guys begin by taking a deep breath over the crazy two part guest interview has in line for the show. A pair of eighth cousins… also eighth cousins to Fisher… who have exhumed the remains of their name line immigrant ancestor, Tjerck Claessen DeWitt, who died in 1700 in Kingston, New York, and his wife and two children. David then shares sto...
Jan 16, 2023•44 min
Episode 444 - Starting The Year With “Fresh Eyes” / The Ideal Winter Project: Ancestor Photo Albums
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org . The guys talk about holiday break projects they undertook, and a super remarkable find of Fisher’s that will lead to next week’s show. David then shares a fun formula for determining your “Royal” name. (Perfect for parties!) He then talks about a pair of twin sisters, each adopted out separately, who recently found one another after 36 years an...
Jan 09, 2023•44 min
Episode 423: Classic Rewind - Woman Discovers Late Dad’s “Ordinary Life” Wasn’t So Ordinary After All
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org . The guys begin with the story of how old Roman roads throughout Europe can now be digitally tracked through omnesviae.org . Dave has the story. Then, the last “witch” executed in the Salem Witch Trials has been officially exonerated. Hear who it is and why her status has been adjusted after over 300 years. Utah’s and Arizona’s Lake Powell is go...
Jan 02, 2023•44 min
Episode 430: Classic Rewind - DNA Match Leads To DNA Testing On Nigeria Trip / DNA And Lineage Societies Today
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org . David begins by talking about a remarkable find he recently made in New Hampshire, providing amazing details about his ancestors who were from there. The guys then speak about a frightening story that talks about how enemy states could turn your raw DNA results to custom make poison with which to target your family. Then, National Geographic ha...
Dec 26, 2022•44 min
Episode 443 - Diahan Southard On Hosting New PBS Show On DNA Surprises / Finding Your Polish Ancestry
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org . The guys begin comparing notes on collecting 19th century family photos. Then, in Family Histoire News, word is now out that YOU can be featured in the upcoming year on Finding Your Roots on PBS with friend-of-the-show Dr. Henry Louis Gates. Hear more about it. Next, a new census is indexed and out for Scotland! David has details. In Utah, DNA ...
Dec 19, 2022•44 min
Episode 442 - Tricks And Tips On Newspaper Research, One Newspaper Find Of The Year!
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. David begins by talking about the advancement of technology that allowed him to take data from 40 CD-Roms and store it on one thumb drive! Fisher then reveals his latest find… an odd one… the same photo taken in 1901, but from a different angle at the same moment. In Family Histoire News, David shares the great story of a 1971 kidnap victim, sto...
Dec 12, 2022•44 min
Fisher’s Top Tips #410r
Once you’ve gone from the land of the researcher to the land of the researched, you no longer control what happens to your heirlooms and research records. Here’s what you can do now!
Dec 07, 2022•42 sec
Episode 441 - “We Can Do It!” Who Was the Real Woman Behind “Rosie the Riveter?”
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. The guys begin the show with a couple of amazing discoveries they each made in the past week. For Fisher, it was the secret marriage of his uncle in 1927, ten months before the couple publicly married, with no one any the wiser! For David, it was the employment records of his great grandfather in England which led him to the ancestor’s date of d...
Dec 05, 2022•44 min
Fisher’s Top Tips #409r
Have you become reliant on online sites for your key records? If so, you’re missing out on the thrill of the hunt the old-fashioned way!
Dec 03, 2022•47 sec
Fisher’s Top Tips #408r
Who deserves to have their history recorded more than our veterans? Fisher shares some great places for finding military records and often the stories that can be uncovered through them.
Nov 30, 2022•49 sec
Episode 440 - Quilt Of Souls: Quilting Traditions And Secrets Of The Enslaved, “How I Got Here” Participants Talk About The Experience
Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org . The guys begin with news about DNA expert and friend-of-the-show, Diahan Southard, who has landed a hosting role on a new PBS series on DNA and secrets ! Fisher and David then talk about some fun recent finds before moving on to “Family Histoire News.” First up… America’s oldest person just celebrated another birthday with her 90-YEAR-OLD daugh...
Nov 28, 2022•44 min
Fisher’s Top Tips #407r
Adoptees in particular, but many others as well, are looking for answers. If your skilled in the DNA world, you might want to consider helping these folks as a “search angel.”
Nov 26, 2022•48 sec
Fisher’s Top Tips #406r
Want to find rare family photos, family Bibles, and who knows what else? Fisher suggests that you try tracing forward!
Nov 23, 2022•55 sec
Episode 268: Classic Rewind - The Great Migration Project Hits 30 Years / Fisher Visits With GMP Director Robert Charles Anderson
At this time of year we’re thinking Thanksgiving and the early colonial ancestors, so we’ve chosen this classic rewind from 2019, which features guest Robert Charles Anderson of the Great Migration Project. Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. The guys begin their “Family Histoire News” with the story of a family that has been in the same unique business for 400 years! Hear what th...
Nov 21, 2022•44 min
Fisher’s Top Tips #405r
Believe it or not, Fisher HATED history as a kid. How he came to love it can work for your child or grandchild, too.
Nov 19, 2022•47 sec
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