Ep. 123 - Salem Execution Site Part II: Professor On How Site Was Confirmed

Published: Jan. 25, 2016, 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, lamenting a recent study showing one in ten young college grads believe Judge Judy sits on the Supreme Court. But that's just the beginning!\\xa0 Hear what else they believe.\\xa0 Then, David talks about how Indian burial mounds in the midwest may soon be leveled to make room for development!\\xa0 Hear where this could happen and who's behind it.\\xa0 Plus, 28,000 New England church records from 1641 to the mid-1800s are soon to be digitized.\\xa0 David shares the details.\\xa0 Plus... got a criminal relative back there?\\xa0 David tells you one way you might be able to own his or her mug shot! David also has another tech tip, and the free database from NEHGS.Then, Fisher visits with Professor Emerson Baker of Salem State University, one of a committee of seven who recently confirmed the location of the execution site of the victims of the Salem witch trials.\\xa0 Learn the techniques they used to survey the area and how they all settled on one particular spot now found in a lovely residential neighborhood.\\xa0 Also, how will this area now be treated by the town, and how and should visitors get to the site?\\xa0 You won't want to miss this segment.Stan Lindaas returns to the show next, from HeritageConsulting.com, to talk with Fisher about terms you'll find in old records that don't mean what you might think they mean.\\xa0 Fisher gets quizzed. Listen to how he does.Tom Perry, the Preservation Authority from TMCPlace.com wraps up the last two segments of the show discussing the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and what wowy new technology is going to benefit the world of family history.\\xa0 Tom's got the skinny!That's all this week on Extreme Genes, America's Family History Show!"