Fisher visits with author Gloria Merchant of Rhode Island. Since his recent discovery of his ancestor’s pirate past, he’s learned that he is not alone. Many genies have pirates back there.

Fisher talks with author Loren Rhoads. She discusses research into her book “199 Cemeteries To See Before You Die.” What genie doesn’t want to know about this?!

Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. David shares the stories behind two recent historic and family historic “gets” he made.

Fisher visits with recent past Governor General of the Mayflower Society, Lea Sinclair Filson.

Fisher visits with Lisa Murphy of Orem, Utah, an “Ordinary Person With An Extraordinary Find.” Lisa’s grandfather was a family enigma. He died without ever telling anyone exactly where he was from, and very little about the family itself.

Fisher then visits with Barry Fleig, a Chicago native now living in Arizona. Barry took great exception to Chicago actually “losing” a cemetery. It was discovered when remains were being dug up during a construction project.

Paul Woodbury, DNA specialist at Legacy Tree Genealogists, joins the show again to talk about the significance of tracking down various cousins. He’ll explain the value as you delve into your dna project.

Fisher catches up with a guy he first came to know in the early 1980s? 49ers and NFL Hall of Famer Steve Young. In the first of this two parter, Fisher and Steve talk about Steve’s renowned ancestor, Brigham Young.

Fisher mines some incredible World War I stories obtained by Christine Pittsley, a World War I Project Coordinator for the Connecticut State Library. Christine explains how the state went about obtaining this material from people’s homes.

Fisher visits with the Photo Detective, Maureen Taylor.

Brooke Ganz, CTM (Chief Trouble Maker), from ReclaimTheRecords.org, joins Fisher talking about the organization’s latest victory? the index of 20th (and 21st!) century marriages in New Jersey, a difficult state to research.

David Allen Lambert returns to talk to Fisher about “Runaway Ads.” Fisher recently found one concerning a 3rd great grandfather who left his family in 1818.

Fisher and David share some of their remarkable experiences at RootsTech, the recent conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. As part of the discussion, Fisher shares his interview with Olympic skater Scott Hamilton, one of the keynote speakers.

New York Times bestselling author, A.J. Jacobs visits with Fisher for two segments. A.J.’s new book is called “It’s All Relative, Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree.”

Fisher visits with LegacyTree.com DNA specialist Candace Camillo, who shares her recent adventure with a client who was hoping DNA would help her identify her grandfather. Indeed it did. But something else happened along the way.

Fisher catches up with his friend CeCe Moore, the Genetic Genealogist, and a regular on “Finding Your Roots” with Dr. Henry Louis Gates on PBS.

Fisher visits with Jonny Perl of London via Skype about the craze he has pretty much single-handedly created with his site DNAPainter.com.

Fisher visits with Kathleen Kaldis and her distant cousin David Stone. The story surrounding him through the generations is that he fell down a “fairy hole” and the fairies “blessed his bow.”

Janet Hovorka from FamilyChartMasters.com talks about why you should consider inventorying your family history “assets.” What qualifies? Why do this? Janet explains.

Fisher wades into deeper DNA waters with DNA specialist Kitty Munson Cooper. Kitty explains a developing DNA technique called Chromosome Mapping. Why would you want to do this? And how would you even begin?

Fisher visits with Rishi Sharma. Rishi is twenty-one years old and spends every day interviewing World War II combat veterans. All of those that are left are now in their 90s.

Fisher visits with Robin Mason, a fan of witches everywhere, but particularly in her home state of Massachusetts.

Fisher visits with D. Joshua Taylor, President of the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society.

Fisher visits with Massachusetts resident Ellen Alden, who went in search of an early photo of herself for her daughter’s school project. But while up in the attic, she discovered something she had never seen before?

Fisher visits with Professor Robert Thorson of the University of Connecticut. Dr. Thorson is an expert on the history of and in those old New England stone walls. Why are they there deep in the woods? How old are they? Who put them there?