Episode 288 - Service Through Research: Iowa Woman Spearheads Headstones For Baby Graves Effort / Connecticut Woman IDs Murder Victims, Aids Authorities /Archives AUA

Extreme Genes host/creator Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. Fisher begins by talking about his recent visit to St. Joseph, Missouri for the Northwest Missouri Genealogical Society where he gave four lectures. David visited a sale of ancestral clothing and other stuff in New York City that brought in millions. It was from the family of Babe Ruth!  The guys then talk about the importance of the recent email sent out by GEDMatch about law enforcement. Find out what you need to do to support authorities with your DNA.  Next, the guys talk about three World War I soldiers whose remains have been found in France. Two have been identified by DNA and have received military funerals along with the third a century after their deaths.  David then talks about NEHGS and their involvement in creating a website for descendants of the 272 Africans sold into slavery by Georgetown University. (They’re now up to 314.)  Hear more about the project.  David’s Blogger Spotlight this week shines on Angela Buckley of Victorian-supersleuth.com. David describes Angela’s fascinating blogs. Next, Fisher talks with Kristine Bartley of Des Moines, Iowa. Kristine explains how she came to spearhead a project to put tombstones on the graves of over 300 children in a local cemetery who died over a hundred years ago. Fisher then visits with Rebekah Heath, a Connecticut woman whose hobby is… er… unusual. She researches missing persons and tries to identify them. Recently, she had her first big success. Find out what she did. Then, The Archive Lady, Melissa Barker, joins Fisher for another Ask Us Anything session… this time on archive family history research. That’s all this week on Extreme Genes, America’s Family History Show!