
Stories That Live In Us
Claim This Podcastby Crista Cowan | The Barefoot Genealogist
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<p>What if the most powerful way to strengthen your family’s future is to look to the past?</p><p><br>I’m Crista Cowan, known online as The Barefoot Genealogist. I created this podcast to inspire you to form deeper connections with your family - past, present, and future. All families are messy and life is constantly changing but we don’t have to allow that to disconnect us. I’ve spent my whole life discovering the power of family history and I know that sharing the stories that live in you can change everything.<br><br>Tune in weekly to receive inspiration and guidance that will help you use family stories to craft a powerful family narrative, contributing to your family’s identity and creating a legacy of resilience, healing, and connection.<br>__________________________<br><br>Want to climb your family tree and uncover your own family stories? Visit my website - CristaCowan.com - and sign up for my free newsletter.</p>
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Recent Episodes

April 30, 2026
Virginia: One DNA Match and a Woman Who Didn’t Want to Be Found (with Nicole Palsa) | Episode 109
Host Nicole Palsa shares her twenty-year search for her missing great-great-grandmother Dessie Dulaney, uncovering a family mystery through a DNA match.

April 23, 2026
New York: A Melting Pot of Resilience (with Scott Pratt) | Episode 108
What would you do if a single letter revealed that everything you thought you knew about your family was only half the story? Scott Pratt walked into a historic Brooklyn church as part of Ancestry's powerful documentary Railroad Ties expecting to find some connection to his Scottish colonial roots. Instead he discovered that he's a descendant of enslaved people who escaped to freedom on the Underground Railroad. In this deeply moving conversation, Scott and I trace the extraordinary arc of hi...

April 16, 2026
North Carolina: Buried Treasure, Buried Stories | Episode 107
He buried a fortune in gold under a bent white oak. Then he died before anyone could find it. My 6x great-grandfather Abraham Kuykendall lived 93 extraordinary years. He survived colonial America, fought in the Revolution, crossed the frontier with 13 children, and built an empire of 2,000 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. But when I found him on a Sunday night FaceTime research session with my dad, I discovered that history remembers him as a ghost story. There's still an ...
113 total episodes available with 57 transcripts
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- What is Stories That Live In Us?
<p>What if the most powerful way to strengthen your family’s future is to look to the past?</p><p><br>I’m Crista Cowan, known online as The Barefoot Genealogist. I created this podcast to inspire you to form deeper connections with your family - past, present, and future. All families are messy and life is constantly changing but we don’t have to allow that to disconnect us. I’ve spent my whole life discovering the power of family history and I know that sharing the stories that live in you can change everything.<br><br>Tune in weekly to receive inspiration and guidance that will help you use family stories to craft a powerful family narrative, contributing to your family’s identity and creating a legacy of resilience, healing, and connection.<br>__________________________<br><br>Want to climb your family tree and uncover your own family stories? Visit my website - CristaCowan.com - and sign up for my free newsletter.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
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