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The Wreck of the Mentor: Eric Jay Dolin on Whaling, Shipwrecks, and Maritime Family History
What happens when an ordinary New Bedford whaling voyage turns into one of the most extraordinary survival stories in American maritime history? In this episode of The Photo Detective, I talk with bestselling maritime historian Eric...
Finding Hidden Nuns in Your Family Tree: Researching Catholic Sisters with Sunny Morton
What happened to the women in your family tree who simply disappeared? In this episode of The Photo Detective Podcast, I’m joined by genealogist Sunny Morton to explore the hidden lives of Catholic nuns in American family history. We t...
How Forever.com is Revolutionizing Digital Memory Preservation
In this episode, Maureen Taylor speaks with Glen Meakem, founder and CEO of Forever.com. Glen shares his inspiration for starting the company in 2012—recognizing a gap in long-term, secure, digital storage for family memories. Forever offers us...
Military Images Magazine’s Ron Coddington Shares the Stories Behind Civil War Photos
Ron Coddington, editor and publisher of Military Images magazine, joins The Photo Detective podcast to share his journey from teenage Civil War photo collector to leading a respected history publication. He discusses the legac...
Spared and Shared: How One Man Made Civil War History Accessible to All
In this episode, Griff (Bill Griffing), the mind behind the Spared and Shared websites, shares how he turned his post-retirement passion for Civil War history into a monumental historical preservation project. Transcribing over 15,000 ...