About this episode

Crista Cowan and Lisa Elzey reflect on their year-long journey exploring family stories across all fifty states.

What happens when you spend a year chasing family stories across all fifty states? I'm Crista Cowan (known online as The Barefoot Genealogist), and for this special Season Two retrospective, I’m pulling back the studio curtain. I’m sitting down with my longtime friend, producer, and editor, Lisa Elzey, to look back on our epic cross-country journey—from a 150-year-old sourdough starter in Alaska to a gripping witch trial in Connecticut. We’re swapping behind-the-scenes secrets, revealing whic...

People in this episode

Host: Crista Cowan

Guest: Lisa Elzey

Topics covered

• family stories
• cross-country journey
• behind-the-scenes
• personal history
• genealogy

Keywords

• family stories
• genealogy
• cross-country
• Alaska
• Connecticut
• sourdough starter
• witch trial

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Fifty Nifty United States

Places: Alaska, Connecticut

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