Betty Jeans Story - Forensic Genealogy, DNA and Adoption
Mags Gaulden
Content
Welcome
2m 43s
Speaker's Introduction
2m 14s
Introduction
5m 11s
The Process
4m 58s
Genetic Genealogy
22m 43s
The Process
2m 59s
Where To Test
5m 52s
Announcements / prizes
6m 42s
Questions / answers
13m 21s
About this webinar
Betty Jean was abandoned in Asheville, NC in 1927. All her life Betty Jean wanted to know who her parents were, but her search ended abruptly in the 1950s when she was shown her very empty files by a clerk at the courthouse. Until her cousin contacts her asking about some family papers. "You know I am adopted?" and the cousin answered, "you know, helping adoptees find their families is one thing my business does?" Follow along as we work the history, we find connections and ultimately find Betty Jean’s Family.
\nAbout the speaker
Mags is a Professional Genealogist specializing in Genetic Genealogy as founder of Grandma’s Genes in Ottawa. Growing up in a family full of family historians, Mags was primed to become a Geneal...
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Comments (4)
Interesting. I had an unknown maternal grandfather and used DNA elimination to discover a half-aunt. Now we have relatives all over the United States.\n\nIt always helps to hear others stories about the process used to learn more about "missing" or unknown relatives.\n\nIt is complicated so having the webinar in the library will be very helpful.\n\nIt was exciting to hear that there is hope for adoptees\n\nIt was great!\n\nIt was great! Fully intend to take a good look at Wikitree. Thank you!\n\nIt was informative \n\nIt would be great to have a follow-up webinar that goes into each step/tool used in an adoption case -- explain why this or that is relevant, the logic for using a tool, etc. Great info.\n\nLet's have her back as a presenter. It was really good.\n\nLooked great, but I had to leave to do some work! I'll get it in the library!\n\nLoved it\n\nMags did a great job at explaining the steps used. Entertaining and meaningful \n\nMags Gaulden hit the nail on the head with the question "What do you with nothing? and then went on to help us bring nothing to something. Very interesting. Thank you.\n\nMags is an excellent presenter who has a good knowledge of the subject!\n\nMags just makes you want to get going with your research. \n\nMy mother was adopted in 1919 and I did basically the same thing to figured out her grandparents etc. using living DNA matches.\n\nNice story and very well explained.\n\nNot searching for adopted person at this time. Great information.\n\nOne of the best webinars ever. Mags is clear in her presentation and keeps it interesting.\n\nPlease have her back. She's great!\n\nShe's a very good presenter and it was a very interesting topic. I don't have any adoptees that I know of, but I have accidently found my cousins unknown daughter. That felt like a minefield! \n\nSo interesting and helpful. Her presentation was clearly stated. Would enjoy more webinars by this person.\n\nSo much info - I plan to go back several times this next week to listen to the presentation again.\n\nSoooo over my head. But I liked her as a presenter, anyway!!\n\nSteps taken was logical and easy to understand. \n\nSuper\n\nTerrific\n\nThank you for some new tools and insights to help with my over 50 years of looking for my birth family.\n\nThank you so much! Extremely informative!\n\nthanks. I learned more about what Wiki Tree could do to help with my research. \n\nThat was really great. Very emotional for me as I am a product of a NPE. \n\nThe process was vert clearly shown!\n\nthey just get better and better - very detailed with lots of info. :) \n\nThis was fascinating. I would like to learn more about identifying an unknown mother or father.\n\nThis was so well presented. It helped me find a way to find my mothers parentage who is adopted. Thanks so much\n\nThis was very interesting. I'm not planning to test my dna nor do am I searching for anyone but I find these webinars about people finding family through dna very fascinating.\n\nThis webinar gave me more options to find a father for my aunt. \n\nThis webinar gave me some ideas on how to find my birth father's family and living sibling relatives. Thank you\n\nThis webinar speaks very well to my "detective" side. Great information and helpful ideas to put together a research plan.\n\nTouching and wonderfully inspiring. Reminiscent of my days doing heir searches at the law firm!\n\nTrue bird-dogging genealogy from unlikely sources including grasping at low-odds needles-in-haystacks. Congratulation!
Truly informative Mags. Thank you.\n\nVery good info. - not redundant at all.\n\nvery helpful\n\nVery helpful for people engaged in adoption genealogy.\n\nVery helpful. I am assisting my daughter (adopted) in finding her birth parents.\n\nVery informative\n\nVery informative and well presented. Thank you, Mags and Geoff...\n\nVery informative!\n\nVery informative!\n\nVery informative. \n\nVery informative. I did not know about the WikiTree aspect for adoption.\n\nvery informative. thank you\n\nVery informative. Thank you\n\nvery interesting\n\nVery interesting\n\nvery interesting\n\nVery interesting & useful even though I'm not aware of any adoptions in my family. I think the information on the different DNA companies & the three places to analyze data will be very helpful\n\nVery interesting and easy to follow. After our father passed away my mother told us that we had a half-brother, the eldest child of my father. She told us his mother's name and said he was born 4 months after she and my father married. By the time I found my half-brother, he had passed away. One of his sons is a DNA match, but I have had no response. I will continue to look further as this webinar has opened a lot of doors. Well done, interesting slides, great speaker!\n\nVery interesting and helpful.\n\nvery interesting and REAL\n\nVery interesting case study. Always learn a different perspective in researching. Liked her emphasis on being respectful.\n\nVery interesting search.\n\nVery interesting speaker! Very easy to understand.\n\nVery interesting to watch & listen to Mags' methodology for solving this particular mystery!\n\nVery interesting topic. Thank you.\n\nVery interesting!\n\nVery interesting! Thank you!\n\nVery interesting, and imformative\n\nVery interesting, even tho I have no adoptions in my family. The DNA info was good.\n\nVery interesting, very good presentation, \n\nVery moving as well as interesting and helpful. Thanks a lot.\n\nVery succinct and easily understood\n\nvery useful information\n\nVery well done. Slides were helpful. Speaker went slowly and was easy to understand\n\nWebinar had a great amount of information and it was very easy to follow Mags process. Thank you so much! \n\nWell done!\n\nWhat a wealth of info. She is a go-to person for many of my questions.\n\nWonderful story and wonderful ending. Thank you! : )\n\nWonderful story teller. Will have to watch again for tech stuff!\n\nWonderful story. DNA works . Thanks\n\nWOW -- gives me ideas to look into a couple "Orphan Stories". May not be orphans at all! Thank you.\n\nyes more very good
I rated this a 5. I have already been using social media, finding common surnames between matches, uploading to other sites to fish in all the ponds. It was a great refresher and boosted my confidence that I was working on the genealogy and DNA in the right ways.\nI thought this was an awesome webinar. To see someone begin with nothing and end up finding her parents through DNA was so encouraging. I am not (yet anyway) working with any adoptees, but it gives me more hope to break through some brick walls. Mags did a great job and was so pleasant to listen to. Looking forward to more from her. \n\nI will never get to her level of expertise, but I learned a lot today. \n\nI'm not an adoptee but I got great information on how to do further research on my family as WWII divided up.\n\ninteresting & informative\n\ninteresting presentation. Thanks.\n\nInteresting story and great resources.\n\nInteresting Webinar but, for a DNA beginner like me, there was not enough detailed information on interpreting the DNA results & matches. Still, I learn something in every webinar! Thanks!
I am a novice and I was able to follow and understand. This is not always the case with some genealogy lectures/ presentations. Some go over the head of the audience. Thank you , your delivery is excellent. I am working on finding a missing relative who seemingly disappeared in 1964 in Manhattan New York. Your webinar motivates me that maybe some mysteries can be found. Thank You!!!\n\nA lot of new DNA information for me. Never heard of WkiTree till today. The presentation was great.\n\nAdoption Story was Awesome By Mags Gaulden!\n\nAs always, new ideas appear during the Q and A.\n\nAwesome webinar. Loved the new information on using Wikitree.\n\nAwesome webinar. I learned alot but am hoping to personally contact Mags. Great way to show all the resources available to us!\n\nBeautifully organized with a great story. Also emphasized sensitivity and respect - really important. \n\nCan't wait to visit some of the websites mentioned, to use some of the tools mentioned and to watch again. Learned things today. Thank you.\n\nEngaging story, great tips for collaboration\n\nEnjoyed the story and How-tos.\n\nExcellent\n\nExcellent as always ... thank you!!\n\nexcellent must do a DNA test now\n\nExcellent presenter and information.\n\nexcellent presentor. detailed but yet quite understandable. easy to follow\n\nexcellent research methodologies! I will have to review this at least once more\n\nExcellent step by step discovery process from a speaker who keeps you listening.\n\nExcellent webinar, jam packed with information about the process.\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent! As an adoptee, I found my mother 35 years ago through hard work and no dna test. How much easier it would be now. Again, an excellent webinar!\n\nExcellent! I find DNA confusing but Mags spoke so clearly, and her handout is so nice, that I think I have a better understanding now. What an interesting story! Thanks very much.\n\nExcellent! So much great information!\n\nExcellent, she explained this better than most. \n\nExcellent. Sound also excellent.\n\nFascinating story!\n\nGood heavens, Mags is marvellous and so knowledgeable!! Excellent presenter - and I'll be watching this again to tease out a few of the reasoning she used for choosing specific surnames/persons. Glad I had signed up for this webinar. \n\ngood tips with wiki tree Thanks\n\ngreat info\n\ngreat information shared \n\nGreat introduction, and really helpful to see how a case is worked.\n\nGreat job Mags! (T&S)\n\nGreat speaker! Good methodology, I will watch this one again. Thanks Mags and thank you Legacy Family Tree Webinars.\n\ngreat speaker, easy to understand and follow\n\nGreat story and she shared wonderful resources that I hadn't heard of before.\n\ngreat topic. especially appreciated the DNA adoption angle thank you!\n\nGreat webinar. I love adoption/dna case studies. Mags gave lots of very good advice that I will apply to my own search.\n\nHigh marks for Mags. This is the first time I have seen anyone trace a family history story when there was "nothing." Excellent presentation. I understood more with this story than any other. Thank you Mags! Love your talk!\n\nI am currently helping two adoptees. I learned some helpful things today, thank you.\n\nI enjoyed learning more techniques that can be used to help adoptees find their birth families. Looking forward to listening to it again,\n\nI have been through four Search Angels and I still don't know who my biological father might be. I was hoping to get some pointers and I did get new information from Mags today, so that was great. I'm definitely going to be on the lookout for any future webinars she might present!\n\nI have done several Adoption/NPE searches; it was interesting to compare her checklist with my approaches. I don't try to "compete" with people who have been doing genealogy for several years, but learn from them. My philosophy is that I can always learn something new. I did.\n\nI loved every minute of this session. I will try to implement the elimination process as we have a mysterious adoptee in our family too :). Thank you!\n\nI missed the first half of session. Sorry that happened, but glad to know I can go back and review posted session later.