Ep. 140 - Genealogy Roadshow's Mary Tedesco on Italian Genealogy/ What Does Fisher's DNA Match Really Mean

Published: May 23, 2016, 9:30 a.m.

b'Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org.\\xa0 Their "Family Histoire News" starts with the story of a World War II vet in his 90s who had a reunion with a man he rescued from Dachau concentration camp at the end of World War II.\\xa0 You\'ll want to hear their story.\\xa0 Then it\'s talk about hair... long, beautiful HAIR!\\xa0 It was Thomas Jefferson\'s.\\xa0 And it has sold at auction.\\xa0 How many strands?\\xa0 What did it go for?\\xa0 We\'ll tell you!\\xa0 America\'s oldest veteran has turned 110.\\xa0 Who is he and where did he serve?\\xa0 Listen to the podcast.\\xa0 David\'s Tip of the Week concerns school photographs, but wait til you hear what Fisher did with some of his father\'s.\\xa0 And of course David shares another NEHGS Tip of the Week. Mary Tedesco of the PBS series "Genealogy Roadshow" then joins Fisher to talk about their third season!\\xa0 Mary will tell you about what they\'re up to on the show this year, and give you a little history of how she came to be one of the hosts.\\xa0 She\'ll also share some tips on Italian genealogy and a great story about her Italian grandmother. Next, Fisher shares a genealogy breakthrough he just had after decades of effort.\\xa0 It was capped off with a DNA match to a sixth great grandparent couple.\\xa0 But Fisher is concerned that a match from that far back is something less than a confirmation.\\xa0 Enter Paul Woodbury, DNA analyst from LegacyTree.com.\\xa0 Paul and Fisher discuss the math behind when a match is most significant and when it\'s not so much.\\xa0 How significant is Fisher\'s match?\\xa0 Don\'t miss this segment. Then Tom Perry, the Preservation Authority, visits talking about the importance of knowing who your end users are going to be when deciding how to digitize your materials.\\xa0 He\'ll explain why it can affect how you choose to format your materials, and how much money it\'s going to cost you! That\'s all this week on Extreme Genes, America\'s Family History Show!'