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Fisher's Top Tips #215r - What's Going to Happen to Your Records and Heirlooms When You're Gone?

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 a host of interesting information. First, FamilyTreeDNA has joined Ancestry.com in updating their ethnicity estimates. Fold3 has released a new collection of amazing military materials from Phan Rang Air B...

Fisher's Top Tips #214r - Can't Find Your Key Record on Line? Try the Old-Fashioned Way.

Fisher's Top Tips #213r - Got an Ancestor Who Served? Look to Military Records as a Source for Incredible Family Stories.

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 of a great new database from the Library of Congress that allows you to search the captions in newspaper photos to find pictures tied to your family or area of interest. Then the Russian State Public History Library has n...

Fisher's Top Tips #212r - Got DNA Skills? Become A Search Angel for Others!

Tracing Forward Can Yield Family History Gold

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 with talk about Ancestry.com's latest adjustment in ethnicity estimates. Have you checked yours recently? Next, famed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin says her childhood interest in one sports team contributed to and enhanced her caree...

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!

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!

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 the show talking with Fisher's latest communications with high school friends of his much older brother, who died when Fisher was eight. In Family Histoire News, the guys talk about two people, in two stories, one Australian, one Ca...

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.

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."

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 an awesome gift given to Fisher… a musket ball from the site of the Great Swamp Fight of 1675 during the King Philip's (Native) War. Two of his direct ancestors were killed there, and another wounded. Then, they sh...

Want to find rare family photos, family Bibles, and who knows what else? Fisher suggests that you try tracing forward!

Believe it or not, Fisher HATED history as a kid. How he came to love it can work for your child or grandchild, too.

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...

Fisher shares a simple strategy for growing your ancestral photo archive.

Continuing his conversation on family photo archives, Fisher gives a quick overview on what you have to do to keep them safe.

Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. David shares his plans for a family trip and a visit he plans to make to a place he's been before. Hear what he has in mind. David then shares the news that the Mayflower 2 is back at Plymouth after several years of repairs and maintenance. Then,...

OK, you're the one in your family with all the family pictures. Now what? The first thing you have to do has nothing to do with technology.

Fisher talks about the "luck" he has enjoyed through the years in genealogy, and how it really isn't as much by chance as you would think.

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 with news of the sale of 75 percent of Ancestry.com . Hear who the company is going to. The guys then share that MyHeritage.com is allowing non-subscribers to use two of their top apps for free until September 10th. Find out which fe...

Fisher explains what lineage societies are and why you might want to join one.

As more and more secrets are exposed by DNA tests, are we prepared to discover that our ancestors were simply human?