Episode 362 - Man Who Survived Pearl Harbor Attack Has Written His Story/Professor Uses AI, Death Certs, And Census Records To Tackle Pandemic

Extreme Genes

Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. The guys begin Family Histoire News with the story of the history eating fast in America. Then, it’s a great article on where your family history materials will go after you’re gone. Another victim of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has been identified through DNA and has been buried with family 80 years later. Hear who he was. Next, a woman has passed at 115 years old who had more to say about Warren Harding than Donald Trump! Catch her story. Hold the presses! It seems we may have one more person living who was born in the 19th century. Catch what David has to say about this 124-year-old man. And finally, a family Bible has been found in an old house and returned to descendants of those named in the Bible. And you won’t believe what family that is!

Next, Fisher catches up with Lou Conter, one of the two remaining survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack on the USS Arizona. Lou has written his life story that is now available. He explains how he survived the explosion of the ship, and what he did after 1941, and after World War II. Lou is now 99-years-old.

Then, Dr. Joe Price of Brigham Young University talks with Fisher about his latest project. It involves artificial intelligence to read handwriting on death certificates, searching digitized newspapers and research of census records to find what strategies really worked in the 1918 pandemic.

Dr. Henry Louis Gates is back to tell us about his newest episode of Finding Your Roots on PBS. The ancestral stories he shares this week are jaw dropping!

David then returns for another listener question on Ask Us Anything.

That’s all this week on Extreme Genes, America’s Family History Show!