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b'America might have been more like Australia than you think.\\xa0 This week, researcher Peggy Lauritzen explains how America also indulged in white slavery!\\xa0 Then, Kathy Manker of Phoenix, AZ talks about her "black sheep" 19th century ancestor.Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist for the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.com.\\xa0 With Fisher\'s Mets defeating the Cubs to go to the World Series, David shares a database for researching baseball players from the recent and distant past.\\xa0 David also talks about an amazing find he has made for the 170th anniversary of NEHGS... a family tie between author Nathaniel Philbrick (who will be honored in Boston for the celebration) and author Herman Melville, both of whom have researched the story that resulted in "Moby Dick."\\xa0 In Family Histoire news, David talks about a 450-year-old Mexican colonial church that has been revealed by the drying up of a reservoir due to the current drought.\\xa0 It\'s a fabulous image!\\xa0 Fisher and David then discuss a 100-year-old woman in Buffalo, New York, who still works six days a week, eleven hours a day... and loves it.\\xa0 She\'s been working since 1930!\\xa0 David then talks about the ongoing archaeological dig at the Boston Common that has revealed items from a Revolutionary era encampment.\\xa0 He then shares his "Tech Tip," and another free database of the week from NEHGS.In segment two, Fisher visits with researcher Peggy Lauritzen who explains the particulars of pre-colonial white slavery in America. She explains the various types, from apprentices to indentured servants, and the way many ended up in their situations.\\xa0 Peggy claims America was a penal colony long before Australia!\\xa0 It\'s a revealing discussion you won\'t want to miss.Fisher then talks to Kathy Manker of Phoenix, AZ.\\xa0 Kathy and her clan dug up some amazing dirt on a third great grandfather and his family from the late 1800s in Illinois.\\xa0 It sounds a lot like the wild west!\\xa0 You\'ll be amazed at what she has found.Fisher and Tom Perry then talk about creating a special box you can use to take digital copies of your antique photographs.\\xa0 It\'s cheap and fun!That\'s all this week on Extreme Genes, America\'s Family History Show!'