Episode 179 - Fisher & Lambert On RootsTech Highlights / Immigrant Ancestors and Their Social Security Records

Published: Feb. 20, 2017, 2:40 a.m.

b'Host Scott Fisher is joined by David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist for the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. The guys open the show with Family Histoire News including the recent experience of a friend of David\\u2019s who actually was under Trinity Church in New York as his ancestors\\u2019 remains were being moved! Next, Fisher and David talk about the recent discovery of a \\u201cpriests hole\\u201d in an old English manor. What does it mean and what is the significance? They\\u2019ll explain. Then it\\u2019s a new discovery concerning Abraham Lincoln, a veteran of the Black Hawk War. Hear about Mary Todd Lincoln\\u2019s government request concerning her husband\\u2019s service. And finally, David begins his spotlight on genealogical blogs. This week\\u2019s is Melanie McComb\\u2019s \\u201cThe Shamrock Genealogist\\u201d https://theshamrockgenealogist.blogspot.com/\\xa0 David also shares a new youth blog for young genealogists, The NextGen Genealogy Network \\xa0http://www.tnggn.org/ The guys are fresh off the four day RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, so David sticks around as they cover some of the things they learned there, including at least one major announcement by a major company, the new FamilySearch Discovery Center at Salt Lake\\u2019s Family History Library and David\\u2019s take on Living DNA among many other highlights. Then, Kate Eakman, Senior Researcher for LegacyTree.com visits with Fisher about your immigrant ancestors and what you may find in their Social Security records. It\\u2019s a source you may not have thought about! Then it\\u2019s Tom Perry from TMCPlace.com, the Preservation Authority, reviewing the Innovators Showdown at RootsTech and this year\\u2019s winning entries. Every year it\\u2019s something new! That\\u2019s all this week on Extreme Genes, America\\u2019s Family History Show!'