FAMILY HISTORY DRAMA : True Ancestry. Told Like Legend.
Family History Drama is a true storytelling podcast that transforms actual ancestral accounts into immersive, emotionally rich audio experiences. It’s a place where true stories, well told, will inspire, caution, entertain, and instruct. By weaving personal stories and historical events with dramatized narrative, each episode brings context to the forgotten voices of the past—complete with the sounds of steam trains, battle cries, whispered prayers, and all the tragedies and divine providence of humanity. Family history isn’t just about names and dates—it’s the preserved energy, soul, and essence of ancestors past, recounted with power, humor, emotion, and heart. We invite you to feel your ancestors as well as think about them. Make the Día de Los Muertos an everyday occasion, because the moments of history become personal when family is involved. Real ancestors. Real drama. Real lessons. Family History Drama—True Ancestry, told like Legend.
Episodes
In the summer shadows of Reconstruction-era Virginia, Wade Morrison stands at a crossroads—torn between the memory of a broken town and the promise of a boundless frontier. As Christiansburg heals slowly from war, whispers of Texas grow louder, tugging at the edges of his ambition. Farewells are spoken. Crates are packed. And across a thousand miles of rail, river, and red clay, a new chapter begins.
But even as Wade h...
In the shadow of a nation torn by Civil War, a young boy in Christiansburg, Virginia, sweeps the floor of a quiet drug store—unaware that his path will one day lead to the naming of one of America’s most iconic sodas. This episode traces the early life of Wade Brockenbrough Morrison: The forming of his surroundings, childhood, boyhood, the backdrop of a civil war, into the heartbreak of his father’s death in 1866, and...
The article snippet below is all I could find on the life of an Italian legend in the San Gabriel Canyon, by the name of Bartholdi. No full name is given, and i could not locate him on any census. His arrival is as mysterious as his death was tragic.
“On the mesa above the hogan of Luisenna, an Italian shoemaker, Bartholdi, built a rude shelter of rocks and mud in 1872. Bartholdi had set up a boot and shoe repair shop...
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Joseph and Hyrum Smith are assassinated by those who were assigned to protect them. No one is held accountable. Turmoil continues to increase. Hundreds of home are burned by mobs. The evacuation planned is expedited by rumors of a federal army marching to Nauvoo. Hundreds will die along the...
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The year 1844 was a pivotal and tragic time for Nauvoo, marked by rising tensions, internal betrayal & external political divisions. Early in the year, dissent grew within the Church, leading William Law and others to establish the Nauvoo Expositor, accusing Joseph Smith of corruption. ...
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After the 1842 assassination attempt on Lilburn W Boggs, life in Nauvoo would never be the same. My work as police sergeant became increasingly complicated. Conspirators seemed to come out of the woodwork from the community itself. Protecting President Joseph Smith Jr. became a no...
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The Mormonite congregations in Missouri had been forcefully evacuated through murder, rage baiting, and violence. President Joseph Smith and Hyrum had made an assisted escape while on a transfer from Liberty Jail, Moving onto the newly named community of Nauvoo in the autumn of 18...
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In 1837 Kirtland, Ohio, Jesse Harmon witnesses a community in turmoil after the collapse of the Kirtland Safety Society. His brother Alpheus explains that their struggles are not just financial but a deeper clash of ideas, as Joseph Smith seeks to integrate spiritual principles in...
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After escaping the certain death inflicted on so many others in a British attack during the War of 1812, Jesse completed his active service in the military and traipsed a bit as a young bachelor. In Pennsylvania he found the woman of his dreams, married her, raised a family, found...
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In part one of this fabulous story, we begin at the turn of the 19th century as an international pissin match turns into the conflict known to history as The War of 1812. Jesse Perse Harmon (17 years old) and his older brother both enlisted. This is a portion of Jesse’s story and ...
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In this final installment of a life story from Howard Leon Whetten…After their B-24 Bomber crashes into the ocean near the Solomon Islands, some unsuspecting angels make an inexplicable rescue when it is needed most. The “coincidences” begin to stack up 🥞 in ways that are undeni...
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In part 2 of this story, the “ordinary life” of Howard Leon Whetten evolves into some extraordinary experiences as he faces certain death in the midnight plunge of his B-24 Bomber into the dark watery grave of the oceans surrounding the Solomon Islands. This very first bombing r...
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From ordinary lives often comes extraordinary experiences. Such is the simple life of Howard Leon Whetten. From his birth in Southern Arizona, to life in old Mexico, and then school and enlisting in New Mexico, Howard’s life does as many did during the days preceding WWII, as it...
SPECIAL THANKS to Collett Carter for the family history story lead.
The Boykin Mill Pond in South Carolina has been the hub of regional industry for processing grains and timber. In 1865 it was the scene of one of the last battles of the Civil War. And in 1860 it was the hallowed grounds of one of South Carolina’s saddest tragedies.
Flatboat history:
https://peoplesriverhistory.us/blog/history-o...
In this emotionally layered and supernaturally charged episode, we follow two threads of human experience—one tragic, one miraculous—both connected by the iron rails of America’s 19th-century railroads.
First, you’ll meet Cynthia Boardman, a woman whose string of nine deceased husbands earned her the whispered nickname The Black Widow of Ohio. Was it tragic coincidence, a morbid curse, or something darker? Her story, d...
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In this deeply moving episode of Family History Drama, we follow the remarkable journey of Edward Augustus “Gus” Boardman, a Union Pacific Railroad man, proud builder of the Georgetown Loop, and grieving father. From the booming heights of Colorado’s gold rush towns to the devastating...
What starts as a lighthearted look at summer jobs and old pickup trucks in small-town Arizona quickly turns into a full-throttle tale of family, justice, and unexpected adrenaline. In this episode, we ride along with Justin, fresh out of high school in 1993, as he unwittingly confronts an escaped fugitive on horseback. Decades later, a stolen four-wheeler sends the narrator and his brother — a local bishop — into hot ...
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In the rugged wilderness of early Utah Territory, frontier medicine collided with faith, fire, and sheer grit. This episode follows the remarkable journey of Dr. Priddy Meeks, one of the earliest pioneer physicians of the American West. From crossing into the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1847 to launc...
In the sweltering summer of 1968, rookie park ranger Mel Heaton was expecting solitude and scenic beauty at Phantom Ranch, deep in the heart of the Grand Canyon. What he got instead was a radio call that would change everything: five armed men were descending the Bright Angel Trail—threatening hikers and preaching with pistols.
With no backup, no radio signal, and no weapon at his side, Mel was faced with an impossible...
After the smoke cleared from the 1896 Montpelier Bank robbery, Henry Rhodes “Bub” Meeks stepped off the wanted posters and into a slow-motion train wreck of his own making. Riding with Butch Cassidy may have taught him a few rules—don’t shoot unless you have to, treat women and children right, keep it clean and clever—but Bub’s luck ran dry faster than Selam the prison horse could gallop.
This episode traces the unrave...
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