Ep. 132 - Michigan Woman Follows Up Fathers Dying Confession, Finds Unknown Sibling in Europe / Nathan Dylan Goodwin and the Genealogical C

Published: March 28, 2016, 9:30 a.m.

b'Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist for the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org.\\xa0 Fisher announces the new searchability of Extreme Genes shows and podcasts through transcript.\\xa0 David then talks about a story that is being investigated that says something is missing from the crypt of William Shakespeare.\\xa0 What is it and why is it missing?\\xa0 David will explain.\\xa0 Next in \\u201cFamily Histoire News\\u201d David will tell you how a family heirloom has survived the destruction of a home by tornado.\\xa0 The item is a treasure and its journey through the air and back to the family it belonged to is nothing short of miraculous!\\xa0 There\\u2019s a new place for your remains, should you go the route of cremation\\u2026 a recording disk!\\xa0 Who is making this possible and for how much?\\xa0 David Lambert has all you need to know about getting into the recording business.\\xa0 Post mortem.\\xa0 David then shares his Tech Tip, and another NEHGS guest user free database.
Fisher next interviews Nathan Dylan Goodwin, an author living in England.\\xa0 Goodwin\\u2019s unique niche is the \\u201cgenealogical crime thriller.\\u201d\\xa0 Fisher says he couldn\\u2019t put down the one he has read, Nathan\\u2019s latest, called \\u201cThe America Ground.\\u201d\\xa0 Nathan has authored several books and explains the challenges of finding unique stories from the past and somehow making them relevant in the present.\\xa0 Want to take a crack at writing a genealogical crime novel?\\xa0 Nathan Dylan Goodwin will have some great advice for you.
We are firmly in the present for the next segment when Fisher visits with a Muskegon, Michigan woman, Jessica Fairbanks, who took notes when her estranged father gave her a death bed confession.\\xa0 He had had a son while living in Germany that none of his American family knew about.\\xa0 Jessica went to work to find her unknown sibling.\\xa0 Catch the full story on Extreme Genes!
Then, Tom Perry answers listener emails on preservation.\\xa0 If you have any eight track tapes from decades ago, you\\u2019ll want to hear this.
That\\u2019s all this week on Extreme Genes, America\\u2019s Family History Show!'