Episode 198 - Kansas Woman On How To Grave Witch / Southern Cousins Attempt to ID All 45 Of Ancestors Children!

Published: June 30, 2017, 9:31 a.m.

b'Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. David is fresh back from Scotland where he made an incredible genealogical discovery. Hear what it is. \\xa0The guys then exchange stories about their Revolutionary ancestors in anticipation of Independence Day.\\xa0 Then, it is a major announcement from FamilySearch.org that has everybody talking. It\\u2019s an important one. Next, David reveals the historic, genealogical document that recently sold at auction for what might buy you a lovely home for in some places! Hint: It has to do with witchcraft. Then, Fisher visits with Mary Ann Kester of Topeka, Kansas about her recently developed skill\\u2026 grave witching. She used it to accomplish a feat that attracted a lot of attention. Hear what she did, how she did it, and how you may be able to do the same thing. In segment three, Fisher talks with Donya \\u201cPapoose\\u201d Williams and Brian Sheffey, two \\u201csouthern cousins\\u201d who are hard at work trying to identify all 45 CHILDREN of one ancestor! It\\u2019s an amazing story of a long-lived man whose life spanned from the colonial era to long past the Civil War.\\xa0 Hear how their project is going and, as they say\\u2026 \\u201cthe rest of the story!\\u201d Then it\\u2019s Tom Perry talking preservation. Tom uses a listener question about a scratched\\xa0 X-Box DVD to illustrate what you need to know about recovering and storing your digitized disks. That\\u2019s all this week on Extreme Genes, America\\u2019s Family History Show and Extreme Genes.com.'