Episode 465 - Georgia Man On His Diverse Ancestors And His Revolutionary Soldiers

Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England History Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. The guys open the show talking about a woman who was being eulogized who started knocking from inside her coffin! Catch the details. Then, hoping to bring his family closer together, you won’t believe what this one man did. He should probably be arrested. Talk about “Archive in the Attic,” we’ve got another winner! And it’s amazing the roof didn’t collapse! Ellis Island has come out with a report that likely explains why many of us can’t find our peoples’ immigration records from the late 1800s. In Germany, personal belongings of some Holocaust victims are finding their way back to their families. David explains. Then, in London another multi-millennia discovery has been made. Find out what it was. Next, Fisher begins his two-part visit with Michael Henderson of Atlanta, Georgia. As an African-American Creole from New Orleans, Michael took an early interest in his family history, taking his lines back to numerous Revolutionary soldiers and branches to several Europeans countries. Wait til you hear about the two century old document concerning his ancestor he found and was able to hold. In the second segment with Michael Henderson, he talks about the experience of becoming Georgia’s first African-American member of the Sons of the American Revolution. In Ask Us Anything, Fisher and David answer a follow up question to last week’s truly spooky episode, with serendipity stories of their own from the genie trail.