The Skeleton Whisperer is here to help you find your ancestors and learn their stories.

Bill Griffeth, longtime genealogy buff, takes a DNA test that has an unexpected outcome. "If the results were correct, it means that the family tree I had spent years documenting was not my own." Bill Undertakes a quest to solve the mystery of his origins, which shakes his sense of identity. As he takes us on his journey, we learn about choices made by his ancestors, parents, and others, and we see Bill measure and weigh his own difficult choices as he confronts the past.

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Margaret Hill-Kipling, Principal Conservator is an art conservator based in South Minneapolis, MN. She began her conservation career treating easel paintings and contemporary murals in Los Angeles, CA. She has an MS in Art Conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation and a BA in Anthropology and Museum Studies from Beloit College in Wisconsin. Maggie spent the bulk of her career in Tucson, AZ at the University of Arizona working on cooperative agreements with the National Park Service’s Intermountain Museum Services Program, where she conducted collection condition surveys, implemented and advised on storage, rehousing, and move projects, and treated a wide variety of historic, archaeological, and Native American cultural materials. She has also worked on conservation of archeological artifacts at active excavations in Guatemala and Turkey. Maggie was awarded a Professional Associate designation by the American Institute of Conservation in 2016.

Death records in the United States have been a huge help to researchers. A Death record contains valuable information about an individual and their ancestor’s death. Over the last few decades, some organizations and online sources have been publishing death records, indexes and databases in the United States. Some with millions of death records throughout the country. On this website we have provided guidelines and tips for each state so that you can easily see what the best sources are to to your search on death records. Death record is kept in the state where the person has died, not where they were born or buried. Some researchers look first for death records because there are often death records for people who have no other records.