Ep. 38 - In Search of Dad's Missing War Stories and Genealogical Cruises

Published: April 21, 2014, 4:21 p.m.

b'Fisher has some incredible stories in this episode.\\xa0 Imagine a stranger knocking at your door to tell you the grandfather who died before you were born had left a message\\u2026 101 years ago!\\xa0 It happened in Germany.\\xa0 Fisher shares the amazing details.\\xa0 Plus, a Red Cross worker sketched soldiers in Holland in 1945.\\xa0 Photos of roughly 100 of those sketches were recently found by family, and an effort is now on to locate descendants of these World War II heroes.\\xa0 We\\u2019ll tell you where to find out more.\\xa0 Could one be of your ancestor?\\xa0 The Vatican Library has begun digitizing.\\xa0 What\\u2019s in the collection that you could soon be viewing on line?\\xa0 We\\u2019ll fill you in.\\xa0 And free Civil War records are available on line through the end of April 2014.\\xa0 Who?\\xa0 Where?\\xa0 Remain calm!\\xa0 It\\u2019s right in the podcast.

Guest John Mitzel from New Hampshire joins the show and explains how he never was able to get his late father to adequately share his stories from World War II.\\xa0 Hear how John would not be defeated, and went about making friends with his dad\\u2019s old friends, and hear some of the stories they told about the 781st\\xa0Tank Battalion!

Then, Chicago\\u2019s Thomas MacEntee introduces us to genealogical cruises.\\xa0 There are such things!\\xa0 What do you do on one?\\xa0 Where do you go?\\xa0 Who does them?\\xa0 Find out as Fisher visits with Thomas.

And lastly, Tom Perry, the Preservation Authority from TMCPlace.com returns to tell you about why you want to use external hard drives to store your most important data, and how to take care of them.'