Extreme Genes

@NotMrTibbs Ryan... FYI, there's an error for the differential for last year for Billy Wagner. It was 3.2 and not 4.2. If that holds this year he would be like 1 vote short as it stands! Cheers!

Your DNA Guide, Diahan Southard, joins the show to discuss the history of genetic genealogy over the last quarter century. She was there at the beginning. extremegenes.libsyn.com/episode-467-te…

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. extremegenes.libsyn.com/fishers-top-ti…

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 look for as you consider your research strategy. extremegenes.libsyn.com/fishers-top-ti…

Fisher visits with Dennis Culliton of Connecticut. David is a teacher, and founder of a program called the Witness Stones Project. extremegenes.libsyn.com/episode-466-wi…

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 places. extremegenes.libsyn.com/fishers-top-ti…

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! extremegenes.libsyn.com/fishers-top-ti…

Michael Henderson talks about the experience of becoming Georgia’s first African-American member of the Sons of the American Revolution. extremegenes.libsyn.com/episode-465-ge…

Females ancestors are sometimes difficult to find. Fisher shares a few thoughts on other ways to look for them. extremegenes.libsyn.com/fishers-top-ti…

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! extremegenes.libsyn.com/fishers-top-ti…

Fisher visits with his distant DeWitt cousins that all descend from Tjerck Claessen DeWitt who died in 1701 in Kingston, New York. Last summer, they exhumed the remains of their ancestors but things started happening that NO ONE can explain. extremegenes.libsyn.com/episode-464-st…

Ever notice familiar repeating family names in a single family group? It could be the parents were following a classic pattern. And that pattern can tell you some very important truths about the previous generation. extremegenes.libsyn.com/fishers-top-ti…

Back in 1752, England enacted a law that changed our calendars forever. But did that law ever make a genealogist’s life complicated! extremegenes.libsyn.com/fishers-top-ti…

Adrienne Abiodun of Legacy Tree Genealogists is back. She talks about Juneteenth and the impact of DNA on African-American research. extremegenes.libsyn.com/episode-463-co…

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. extremegenes.libsyn.com/fishers-top-ti…

Fisher worked to break open one ancestral line for fifteen years. It wasn’t until he was closing the book on the case by creating a timeline that he saw the answer! extremegenes.libsyn.com/fishers-top-ti…

Melissa Barker, “The Archive Lady,” is back from Houston County, Tennessee. Melissa talks about the silver lining of the pandemic for archives, and some of her recent acquisitions including one that’s hard to believe. extremegenes.libsyn.com/episode-462-fo…

Just the way not every record is digitized, many records are digitized but not indexed! Can’t find what you’re looking for? It’s time to check those massive unindexed records! extremegenes.libsyn.com/fishers-top-ti…

Those Tricky Immigration Records extremegenes.libsyn.com/fishers-top-ti…

Fisher visits with Nadia Rupniak. Nadia never thought her late father accomplished much in his life, but as the result of discovering an old letter, she learned otherwise. extremegenes.libsyn.com/episode-423-cl…