The Time Traveler’s Suitcase

Jan 05 2024 13 ep. 30 mins 8
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Explore the interface between history, archeology and ancient DNA. The Time Traveler’s Suitcase is a weekly podcast from DNA Consultants. The show is hosted by talk radio professional Pete Ferrand. Most of the episodes include an audiobook excerpt from the publications of Donald N. Yates, a DNA investigator and historian whose works include Old Souls in a New World, Merchant Adventurers of Rhoda and The Cherokee Origin Narrative. Each usually also has an interview with a leading scientist or historical expert.

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Armenians and Others on the Cherokee Frontier

Jan 05 2024 35 mins  
Armenians, free blacks, mulattoes, Arabs, Moors, Cannibal Indian tribes and Christian missionaries occupy the Cherokee hinterland in 1680. This is the second episode in our ongoing series titled “More Cherokee Descendants Who Proved the Geneticists Wrong. The Time Traveler’s Suitcase podcast website: dnaconsultants.com/podcast/

Surprising Lineages of the Cherokees

Apr 25 2023 22 mins  
Participants in DNA Consultants’ Cherokee DNA Studies proved to have other lineages than just haplogroup A, B, C, D and sometimes X. The participants’ nonstandard maternal lines confirm the incredible diversity of Cherokees and suggest that various clans came by water from the Old World, not across a hypothetical land-bridge from Asia. This is the first episode from our new s

Genealogist Donald Yates Uncovers Secrets of Cherokee DNA

Oct 13 2022 16 mins  
In an interview by Emily Frances, host of the Israeli news show “Holy Land Uncovered,” author and DNA investigator Donald Yates discusses his own family traditions, which combine Cherokee, Choctaw and Sephardic Jewish roots. The Time Traveler’s Suitcase podcast: https://dnaconsultants.com/podcast/ Cherokee DNA Test: https://dnaconsultants.com/product/our-tests/cherokee-dna-

Native American Wit and Wisdom: Words in the Wind

Nov 20 2019 15 mins  
It all began in 1998 with Donald and Teresa Yates’s genealogy website “Lost Indian Tribes Southeast.” Fifteen years later, Panther’s Lodge, as the site was called, became a publisher of books about American Indians. The Big Little Book of Native American Wit and Wisdom, compiled by Anna Kolouthon was one of the first produced, and it was followed by an audiobook version nar

Old World Roots of the Cherokee

Aug 14 2019 42 mins  
The Cherokee people originated as seven clans arriving in the Ohio Valley in Hellenistic times. Excerpts from Donald Yates and Teresa Yates' book titled Cherokee DNA Studies, read by Pete Ferrand, covering the ancient origins and first languages of the Cherokee and Hopi. The Time Traveler’s Suitcase podcast: https://dnaconsultants.com/podcast/ Cherokee DNA Test: https://dnacons

DNA Identities and the Wardrobe of the Soul

Jul 10 2019 31 mins  
A genetic genealogist discusses the evolving state of DNA testing. Pete Ferrand interviews adoptee Jan Franz, a Seneca and Cherokee descendant, on the foibles, wonders and personal revelations of DNA testing, from the Human Genome Project to the advent of ancient DNA. Our podcasts: https://dnaconsultants.com/podcast/ Cherokee DNA Test: https://dnaconsultants.com/product/specials/

True History of the Creek Indians Part Two

Jun 11 2019 33 mins  
Richard Thornton continues with his amazing revelations about the Apalache, Euchee, Hitchiti and others in the Southeast. Part Two of Two. The second part and conclusion of Pete Ferrand's interview with Creek Indian Richard Thornton, touching on the Bronze Age Scandinavian entry into the Savannah River, pre-Celtic presence, Minoans in south Georgia, Panoans from Peru about 200 A.D.

True History of the Creek Indians

Jun 04 2019 36 mins  
Creek historian Richard Thornton is interviewed about the Maya, Euchee, Apalache and others in the Southeast. Part One of Two. Host Pete Ferrand interviews Georgia architect and author Richard Thornton about the surprising original diversity of American Indians in the Southern Highlands before they were crassly collapsed into only two federal groups, the Creeks and the Cherokees. W

Kangaroos Among The Cherokee

Apr 16 2019 33 mins  
Meet the Kangaroos of Native American DNA. Host Pete Ferrand reads from a chapter in Real People Who Proved the Geneticists Wrong about the so-called "anomalous" Cherokees who don't fit an ABC definition of American Indian.

Studying Them Melungeons

Mar 18 2019 44 mins  
Can genealogy be funny? It can with Melungeons. Pete Ferrand travels to Newmans Ridge, Tennessee, where he witnesses a battle over the definition of the term Melungeon. Reading by Ginger Cuculo of the chapter "Cyberfeud on the Ridge" from Ancestors and Enemies: Essays on Melungeons, by Phyllis E. Starnes and Donald N. Yates Ginger Cuculo, audiobook narrator.