Ep. 47 - Fishers Fabulous Find and Could Your DNA Recreate An Ancestors Face?!

Published: June 23, 2014, 9:30 p.m.

b'Fisher\\u2019s Family Histoire News covers the passing of the last of the 29 original Navajo Code Talkers, whose unique code was never broken by the Japanese in World War II.\\xa0 Plus, the original words to what became our National Anthem have been reunited with the flag the inspired them.\\xa0 Learn where you can see this remarkable display.
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Photo expert Ron Fox returns to the show.\\xa0 Ron was on just a few weeks ago talking about collecting things relating to your ancestors.\\xa0 Fisher took his advice and, recognizing he was letting an opportunity slip away, went to work.\\xa0 The result was a haul of family history treasures, some dating back over 160 years, that left him speechless.\\xa0 Fisher and Fox discuss the particulars and how you could potentially do the same thing.
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Dr. Mark Shriver from Penn State then joins the show by phone to discuss his experiments into how DNA might one day soon be able to \\u201cpredict\\u201d your ancestor\\u2019s face!\\xa0 Sounds like science fiction, but Dr. Shriver says not so.
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And Tom Perry, the Preservation Authority from TMCPlace.com\\xa0shocks Fisher with an answer to a listener question about how to get at your grandparents\\u2019 old movies.\\xa0 Tom then gives important contact information to assure you get proper permissions for use of copyrighted materials when using them in family history presentations.'