Stories That Live In Us
What if the most powerful way to strengthen your family’s future is to look to the past?I’m Crista Cowan, known online as The Barefoot Genealogist. I created this podcast to inspire you to form deeper connections with yo...
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- Scott Pratt1 ep
- Maureen Taylor1 ep
- Mike Brousseau1 ep
Also: Paul Abell, Caitlyn Bruns, Arlene Rome, Lisa Fanning, Larissa Lam, Nicole Palsa, Nancy Kotz, Lynne Snierson, Laura Tasse, Anne Mitchell, Julie Merrill, Lisa Elzey, Anna Crowley Redding, Jessica Rae, Eric Allen, Suzanne Hoffman, Victoria Robinson
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- 🇺🇸United States · Personal JournalsHOME#11313K to 67K
- 🇿🇦ZA · Personal Journals#15439 to 205
- 🇮🇸Iceland · Personal Journals#1457 to 40
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
13K to 68K🎙 ~2x weekly·129 episodes·Last published 6d ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
26K to 135K🇺🇸100% - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
14K to 74K
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/22/26 | All the Beautiful Things: What Really Brings People Back to Faith (with Shelley Graham) | Episode 134 | How many times have you sat across the table from a child or sibling who sees faith completely differently than you do, and felt an aching gulf between you? In those moments, our first instinct is usually to defend what we believe, but my guest today is here to help us flip the script. Playwright and BYU theatre professor Shelley Graham joins me to share the incredible stories behind her verbatim stage production, All the Beautiful Things, revealing what actually brings people back to faith a... | 50m 01s | ||||||
| 10/15/26 | The Countess of Cons: Uncovering Scandalous Ancestors (with Deborah Holman) | Episode 133 | "When I noticed a yellowed piece of paper physically taped over a portrait in an old family book, I knew there was a secret waiting to be found." My guest today, author Deborah Holman, set out to uncover that hidden identity and ended up spending two years untangling the unbelievable life of her husband’s great-grandmother. We’re talking about a 19th-century woman living under dozens of aliases, pulling off high-stakes cons, breaking into 50 homes in a single weekend at age 60, and keeping h... | 37m 15s | ||||||
| 10/8/26 | Black-Market Adoptions to Broadway Stars (with Lisa Elzey) | Episode 132 | What if the secret to breaking through your own genealogy brick walls is stepping away from your family tree entirely? In this episode, my dear friend, colleague, and podcast producer Lisa Elzey joins me to explore how researching strangers' family trees—from solving the dark mysteries around the 1950s Georgia "Hicks babies" black-market adoptions to uncovering the immigrant roots of the cast of the Broadway show Anastasia—completely transformed the way we do family history and genetic geneal... | 43m 58s | ||||||
| 10/1/26 | Why You Probably Have Cousins Everywhere (And How to Find Them) | Episode 131 | What if the person sitting next to you right now (at work, in church, or at a wedding) isn't a stranger at all? When I started doing descendancy research and checking my DNA matches, I realized we are constantly crossing paths with living cousins in the most unexpected places. From college roommates to the groomsmen out on the dance floor, our ancestral threads weave us together in ways that completely change how we see the world. Join me for the start of National Family History Month as we e... | 24m 00s | ||||||
| 9/24/26 | Breaking a 150-Year German Brick Wall (with Jenny Ashcraft) | Episode 130 | When a 150-year-old German brick wall kept my friend Jenny Ashcraft stuck for nearly two decades, she decided to stop pushing straight backward and try a completely different research strategy. By fanning out to document all ten of her ancestor's children, the floodgates opened—leading to an unbelievable library encounter with the author of the exact emigration index she needed, a mysterious phone call revealing an unmarked grave, and a renewed connection with living cousins. If you've been s... | 36m 35s | ||||||
| 9/17/26 | The Heirloom Portrait & The Danish Flood: Verifying Family Lore (with Rhonda Budge) | Episode 129 | Growing up, my guest Rhonda Budge spent hours sitting beside her grandmother, staring at a massive framed portrait of her great-great-grandfather, Johann Christian Hansen. Family lore claimed he heroically rescued neighbors from their rooftops during an 1872 Danish flood, lost his ship, and gave away his reward money. It’s a story that sounded almost too extraordinary to be completely true. But when Rhonda set a clear research goal and wrote to an archive in Denmark, a 1908 newspaper obituary... | 34m 34s | ||||||
| 9/10/26 | family heritagecultural traditions+3 | Eric Allen | — | UtahIceland+2 | family treeheritage+3 | — | 30m 00s | ||
| 9/3/26 | family historyimmigration+3 | Suzanne Hoffman | — | BelarusBoston | BelarusBoston Meat Wars+3 | — | 42m 59s | ||
| 8/27/26 | military servicefamily legacy+3 | Victoria Robinson | Air Force | ArkansasSalt Lake+1 | Air ForceArkansas+5 | — | 40m 32s | ||
| 8/20/26 | adoptionDNA+3 | — | AncestryDNA | — | adopteeDNA twist+3 | — | 32m 12s | ||
| 8/13/26 | parentingdivorce+4 | Bubba Page | 1960 vinyl record album | — | parentingdivorce+5 | — | 58m 45s | ||
| 8/6/26 | Italian immigrantscoal mine massacres+4 | Linda Stasi | — | Pueblo, ColoradoRed Hook, Brooklyn | bootleggersmine massacres+5 | — | 39m 56s | ||
| 7/30/26 | family historygenealogy+3 | Chris Haley | Maryland State Archives | — | Alex HaleyRoots+5 | — | 59m 59s | ||
| 7/23/26 | family historygenealogy+3 | Melissa Stafford | Ancestry®Good Morning America | Revolutionary War | family treelost legacy+4 | — | 42m 46s | ||
| 7/16/26 | family historyshared stories+3 | — | — | Utah | family historyshared ancestors+3 | — | 17m 14s | ||
| 7/9/26 | family storiescross-country journey+3 | Lisa Elzey | Fifty Nifty United States | AlaskaConnecticut | family storiesgenealogy+5 | — | 59m 09s | ||
| 7/2/26 | historyAmerican independence+3 | Anna Crowley Redding | Rescuing the Declaration of Independence | Delaware | Delawarefoundational words+3 | — | 47m 18s | ||
| 6/25/26 | family secretsgenealogy+3 | Jessica Rae | U.S. federal census record | PennsylvaniaMayview State Hospital | family treecensus record+4 | — | 49m 36s | ||
| 6/18/26 | genealogyfamily history+4 | — | — | New JerseyBoston+1 | genealogyQuaker records+6 | — | 57m 09s | ||
| 6/11/26 | genealogyfamily history+4 | Julie Merrill | — | Washington stateCalifornia+1 | genealogyWilliam H. Wheeler+4 | — | 47m 08s | ||
| 6/4/26 | family historygenealogy+3 | — | FamilyChartmasters.com | ConnecticutWindsor | Windsor WitchConnecticut+3 | — | 21m 40s | ||
| 5/28/26 | family historygenealogy+3 | Laura Tasse | FamilyChartmasters.com | — | family connectionsgenealogy+3 | — | 32m 26s | ||
| 5/21/26 | immigrationfamily history+3 | — | — | MarylandRhineland Palatinate+1 | MarylandAnna Maria Niccum+5 | — | 19m 23s | ||
| 5/14/26 | historygenealogy+4 | Anne Mitchell | — | South CarolinaPennsylvania Dutch | South CarolinaFrederick Hambright+4 | — | 30m 32s | ||
| 5/7/26 | Jewish genealogychosen family+4 | Nancy KotzLynne Snierson | synagogue | New HampshireLakes Region+1 | Jewish rootsgenealogy+5 | — | 45m 29s | ||
| 4/30/26 | family historyDNA+3 | Nicole Palsa | — | Virginia | DNA matchfamily history+3 | — | 35m 30s | ||
| 4/23/26 | family historygenealogy+3 | Scott Pratt | Ancestry | New YorkBrooklyn | familygenealogy+6 | — | 36m 11s | ||
| 4/16/26 | genealogyhistory+3 | — | — | North CarolinaBlue Ridge Mountains | Abraham KuykendallNorth Carolina+5 | — | 28m 27s | ||
| 4/9/26 | genealogyphotography+4 | Maureen Taylor | Rhode Island Genealogical Society | Rhode IslandPawtucket | vintage photographsfamily history+5 | — | 42m 51s | ||
| 4/2/26 | family historyVermont culture+3 | Mike Brousseau | — | Northeast Kingdom of VermontVermont | Vermontfamily stories+5 | — | 37m 15s | ||
| 3/26/26 | genealogyfamily history+3 | Paul AbellCaitlyn Bruns | Ancestry | KentuckyAdair County | Kentuckygenealogy+6 | — | 38m 41s | ||
| 3/19/26 | American historyRevolutionary War+3 | — | — | North CarolinaTennessee | Revolutionary WarDaniel Jones+5 | — | 32m 40s | ||
| 3/12/26 | family historygenealogy+3 | — | — | Ohio | genealogyfamily roots+5 | — | 30m 26s | ||
| 3/5/26 | family historypersonal stories+3 | Arlene Rome | — | LouisianaMetairie | family historyLouisiana+5 | — | 50m 42s | ||
| 2/26/26 | American historygenealogy+3 | Lisa Fanning | National Genealogical Society | North CarolinaIndiana+1 | genealogyAmerican history+3 | — | 51m 27s | ||
| 2/19/26 | family historyAmerican history+3 | Larissa Lam | Far East Deep South | MississippiMississippi Delta | Mississippifamily grave+5 | — | 49m 46s | ||
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Chart history for Stories That Live In Us
Peaked at #113 in United States, currently #113 in United States.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | — | #113 | #113 | — |
| IS | — | #145 | #145 | — |
| South Africa | — | #154 | #154 | — |
Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.
Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.