Extreme Genes - America's Family History and Genealogy Radio Show & Podcast show

Extreme Genes - America's Family History and Genealogy Radio Show & Podcast

Summary: 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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Podcasts:

 Episode 328 - Focus on Photography: Photo Detective Maureen Taylor on Photographing Your Pandemic History / as Important as the Picture: Metadata and a New Push to Standardize | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 48:27

Photo Detective Maureen Taylor talks about creating a “pandemic archive” or “coronavirus photo album.” We’re each having our own experiences in this mess. Maureen has some great thoughts on what to photograph and how to put it all together for the benefit of future generations.

 Fisher’s Top Tips #180r | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:07

Fisher’s Top Tips #180r

 Episode 327 - Virtual YOU! How You May Answer Your Descendants Questions About You a Century from Now! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 48:27

Fisher talks with Heather Maio Smith of the USC Shoah Foundation. Heather was recently featured on 60 Minutes about interviewing Holocaust survivors and then using technology so they can seem to be having a conversation with you.

 Fisher’s Top Tips #179r | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:06

Fisher’s Top Tips #179r

 Fisher’s Top Tips #178r | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:08

Fisher’s Top Tips #178r

 Episode 326 - Legal Genealogist Judy Russell Talks About the Law Behind Quarantines and a New Year of Public Domain Releases | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 48:27

Legal Genealogist, Judy Russell shares the history of legal quarantine. It goes back much further than you might suspect! In the second half, Fisher and Judy discuss the exciting prospects for 2020 concerning material from 1924 that has come out of copyright and into the public domain.

 Fisher’s Top Tips #177r | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:01

Fisher’s Top Tips #177r

 Fisher’s Top Tips #176r | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57

Fisher’s Top Tips #176r

 Episode 325 - Free Genealogy Lectures From NEHGS & AmericanAncestors / Dr. Henry Louis Gates On New African American History Tools | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 48:27

Dr. Henry Louis Gates from the PBS series “Finding Your Roots” visits with Fisher again. But this time on two other projects he’s involved in concerning African American history. Both are something that can particularly benefit your children.

 Fisher’s Top Tips #175r | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51

Fisher’s Top Tips #175r

 Fisher’s Top Tips #174r | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:06

Fisher’s Top Tips #174r

 Episode 324 - The FAN Club Principal Cracks Open Brick Walls the Possible Location of Your Lost Civil War Pension Records Revealed | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 48:27

Fisher visits with Rachel Popma of Legacy Tree Genealogists. Rachel talks about the FAN Club Principal and how many use it to break open brick walls and find the origins of ancestors. It’ll make sense to you when you hear it and how Rachel used it in one of her own cases.

 Fisher’s Top Tips #173r | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:03

Fisher’s Top Tips #173r

 Fisher’s Top Tips #172r | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50

Fisher’s Top Tips #172r

 Episode 323 - Blaine Bettinger Talks DNA, New Products and Latest Edition Of Shared Centimorgan Project | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 48:27

Fisher visits with Dr. Blaine Bettinger talking all things DNA, including his thoughts on new tools and his latest edition of his Shared CentiMorgan Project. You’ll also find out whether it’s a good idea to send in DNA samples during the current lockdown.

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