Ep. 116 - Fisher Talks To Pearl Harbor Vet Who Was On the Arizona / Researching Your World War II Ancestor

Published: Dec. 7, 2015, 10:30 a.m.

b'Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org.\\xa0 Could you be the first member of your family to live to be 120?!\\xa0 Research into a new pill... that David already takes!... says you could be.\\xa0 David tells you what that pill is and why he takes it.\\xa0 Then, "born in Babylonia, moved to Arizona..." it\'s new news on a very old king... King Tut.\\xa0 What\'s going on at his tomb now?\\xa0 Find out on the podcast!\\xa0 David then talks about an Englishman who tracked down his American World War II vet father and got quite a surprise at his father\'s passing.\\xa0 Then learn about a huge boon to Irish research that is now available, an awesome FREE Tech Tip from David, and this week\'s free database from NEHGS.Next, Fisher interviews 94-year-old Lou Conter, who, at age 20, was a member of the crew of the Arizona.\\xa0 He was on board the morning of the attack... December 7, 1941.\\xa0 Hear Lou\'s first hand account of that day, and how it affected his life in the years that followed. Also hear why Lou says the first act of war committed by the Japanese actually happened three days earlier.\\xa0 He is one of the last of those who were there on the day President Roosevelt said "would live in infamy."\\xa0 Be sure to share this special visit with your friends.Then, Dr. Ken Alford, a professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, gives a very concise lesson on how to research your World War II ancestor\'s military records.\\xa0 You\'ll be shocked at how much information may be out there on your family\'s hero.Fisher then gets under the hood on file conversion and preservation with Preservation Authority Tom Perry from TMCPlace.com.\\xa0 Have you started your preservation program yet?That\'s all this week on Extreme Genes/ America\'s Family History Show!
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