Episode 194 - Buying Your Childhood Or Ancestral Homes, The Ups & Downs; Maureen Taylor on Spring Cleaning Your Photo Collection

Published: June 5, 2017, 2 a.m.

b'Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. David begins \\u201cFamily Histoire News\\u201d with a story from Germany that should serve as a warning to anybody who buys military related memorabilia at a flea market. Then, it\\u2019s the story of a group of guys who posed for a picture in 1966, only to recreate it five decades later. Hear all about it. Then, it\\u2019s been a remarkable journey for an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who has belatedly (for obvious reasons) completed an important life milestone.\\xa0 David next talks about a unique Connecticut cemetery\\u2026 one that was made for slaves, with many of the tombstones created by slaves. \\xa0David then puts the blogger spotlight on John Grenham\\u2019s Irish Roots, johngrenham.com.blog, a great place to interact regularly on Irish history and genealogy. Next, Fisher catches up with writer Audrey Brasich who recently published a great article in Realtor.com on adult children buying or moving into their childhood homes or ancestral homes. Audrey\\u2019s got some great stories and advice if you\\u2019re considering such a move. Then, Photo Detective Maureen Taylor rejoins the show with advice on spring cleaning your photo collection. Looking to \\u201cdeclutter?\\u201d Maureen will tell you what you should and shouldn\\u2019t eliminate, and how to maximize the family value of your ancestral photographs. Tom Perry from TMCPlace, the Preservation Authority, drops in to talk about the latest equipment and software that has him \\u201cgeeked\\u201d up! If you\\u2019re thinking \\u201cDo It Yourself\\u201d or even about starting your own preservation business, you\\u2019ll want to hear what Tom has to say. That\\u2019s all this week on Extreme Genes, America\\u2019s Family History Show!'