DNA Rights and Wrongs: The Ethical Side of Testing

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1. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   7 years ago

   Fantastic information. \n\nFantastic webinar. Judy's webinars are always great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n\nFantastic webinar...and I have not even tested! But found this informative for the day when/if I do decide to test. \n\ngives one a lot to think about.\n\nGlad to hear about all the solutions near the end of the webinar. Thanks for all the useful information and links. Would love a similar webinar covering the situation in the UK and Ireland next time. \n\nGood info, thanks!\n\ngood information\n\nGood information and well presented.\n\nGreat info on DNA ethics and find with some humor, as always and appreciated. Thank you. \n\nGreat information from Judy. I had no idea that the Consent Forms were so involved and so important. I will be reading them very carefully when and if I decide to have my DNA tested.\n\nGreat information well presented! Thank you!\n\nGreat information. Thanks.\n\nGreat job. Clear and concise!\n\nGreat presentation. Lots to think about.\n\nGreat start to 2019!\n\nGreat Webinar! Thanks!\n\nGreat!\n\ngreat, thanks for the info Judy.\n\nGreat, up-to-date info. Thank you!\n\nI enjoy Judy Russell's webinars & speaking engagements! She is so very knowledgeable. Great webinar today & so easy to understand! Thank you!\n\nI have a few family members that have had concerns about doing their own tests and this has given me the tools I need to share in order to help them decide. Thank you for such an informative webinar.\n\nI learned so much, you are a wonderful presenter!!!!! I shared this with many people. \n\nI love Judy Russell!\n\nI missed most of this webinar due to unforeseen circumstances, but I caught the end of it. Just that little bit answering questions about "consent to additional testing" was great! Now I'm anxious to listen to the recording! We are really so fortunate to have a Judy Russell in the genealogical community! Especially right now with constant changes in what we can do with our DNA results, new ways to analyze the data, and the legal ramifications of uploading to these new websites.Thx so much!\n\nI really enjoyed the seminar today and learned a lot from it. I can apply these into my own family research and others that I am researching. Thank you\n\nI thought it was really helpful about the issue of informed consent, especially reading the terms of service, something I've been remiss about. I will go back and get my uncle to actually sign a consent form and discuss beneficiary information.\n\nI thought it was very informative, amazing regarding the twin and bone marrow info...thank you\n\nIf I could, I'd give Judy Russell a ten. This is one of best webinars Legacy has presented. Thanks.\n\nI'm new at DNA so was very helpful going forward. Thanks.\n\nIncredibly informative and Judy is a wonderful presenter. Thank you for this.\n\nInteresting\n\nIt's always a good thing to have Judy's practical and realistic insight on any topic; especially this one.\n\nI've attended most of Judy's webinars. This was another great one!\n\nJuddy is always great but this was super special.\n\nJudy always has the most informative webinars. However this one was so timely it rates above the rest because so many are both testing and sharing with abandon while not taking into consideration the legal and ethical ideas that are and were there all the time. \n\nJudy always knows what to say to convey the message clearly. Thanks. \n\nJudy always shares great information!\n\nJudy explains things so very succinctly!\n\nJudy gave all of us much to think about. I was a very early tester, and fortunately only asked one cousin to test. Guess I'll have to send him the forms.\n\nJudy has an amazing way of giving detailed legal type into in a way that makes it clear (and interesting) to the lay person!\n\nJudy is always a wonderful presenter and this time was no exception. \n\nJudy is always amazing and funny. Such clear explanations we can all understand.\n\nJudy is always excellent. This webinar should be made available far and wide - the story needs to be told, and retold. Nobody does it better than Judy!\n\nJudy is always great! Please keep having her back.\n\nJudy is ALWAYS great!!!\n\nJudy is always outstanding!\n\nJudy is always so informative and real.\n\nJudy is ALWAYS wonderful!\n\nJudy is an extraordinary instructor! She has a gift :-)\n\nJudy is extremely well-informed on legal and ethical topics and presents her information in a vibrant and thought-provoking way that never gets old, no matter how many times I hear her. Thanks for the quality of Legacy Family Tree Webinars!

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2. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   7 years ago

   Top-notch presentation by Judy as always. Thanks for simplifying a complicated subject.\n\nTwoo days into 2019 and two webinars attended. What a way to start the new year. Thanks. \n\nvery detailed and informative. thank you\n\nVery Good\n\nVery good seminar!\n\nVery good webinar, good insights revealed.\n\nvery informative\n\nVery informative and thought provoking. Love Judy Russell\n\nVery informative and very well put together to understand for the average person Thank you\n\nvery informative!\n\nVery informative.\n\nVery interesting\n\nVERY interesting and informative!\n\nVery interesting and learned a lot\n\nVery interesting discussion and use of examples really brings home the issues we need to consider.\n\nVery interesting topic and I would welcome anything Judy G. Russell presented.\n\nVery timely and critical information.\n\nVery timely, great presentation, well worth my time. Keep up the excellent work.\n\nVery useful and informative\n\nwell explained content\n\nWell presented as usual. \n\nWish there was a higher number! Judy Russell is fantastic!!!!\n\nWONDERFUL\n\nWonderful webinar!!!!\nWonderull webinar!\n\nWOW!!! Abolutely great. Can't wait to see her next month here in Sun City West, AZ.\n\nWow, Wow, Wow!!!!! So many aspects to this I would have never thought of. Will make me think a lot before asking anyone.

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3. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   7 years ago

   Judy is one of my favorite presenters. I will watch her even on topics that are less interesting to me. She's very clear, concise and engaging. \n\nJudy is the best!!! This is so timely\n\nJudy Russell articulated the ethical and legal issues and the implications very well. Excellent program.\n\nJudy Russell is a fantastic presenter. Spices up her lectures with knowledge and humor. Will definitely look at some of her other webinars.\n\nJudy Russell is a fantastic speaker and always provides great amounts of information in the allotted time.\n\nJudy Russell is a ROCK STAR! She has so much to share with us and is a fascinating speaker!!!!!!!! Thank you very much! \n\nJudy Russell totally rocks! I really appreciated her calm, clear, concise rundown of the ethics we must consider when testing. That she also shared the great resources on her site and Blaine Bettinger's site (with credits to Debbie Parker Wayne) was the frosting on the cake. Best webinar yet... and I've seen a lot!\n\nJudy uses her law background well. She offers both sides of an issue to show how bad consequences may happen with revealing secrets. We all need to heighten our ethical mores to be sensitive to those consequences. Great webinar!\n\nJudy was fabulous, as per her usual! She is an engaging and informative speaker who knows how to get her information across to a wide variety of people. And thank you for this topic! \n\nJudy was great, as always!\n\nJudy's presentations are amazing: clear, focused, interesting, useful, and entertaining!\n\nJudy's webinars are always excellent and I always learn so much from her! Thanks again!\n\nJudy's webinars are always informative and interesting.\n\nJudy's webinars are always super informative!\n\nJust great! Learned lots\n\nJust the best!!\n\nJust wonderful!\n\nLearned so much!!\n\nLearned so much, so easily!\n\nlots of great information!\n\nLove Judy Russell!\n\nLove Judy Russell. She never disappoints.\n\nMs Russell was very easy to understand, both through her speaking voice and the manner in which she presented the subject material about the legalities of DNA testing. \n\nMy first Family Tree Webinar -- very impressive. I always learn something new, sometimes surprising, from Judy. Am looking forward to more webinars here throughout 2019.\n\nMy rating is a 20!\n\nNicely organized. Excellent speaker. Thanks!\n\nNobody can do a better job than Judy Russell of explaining a complicated subject in a way that makes it perfectly clear and simple.\n\nOutstanding! I never miss one of Judy's webinars. She explains everything so well and in an interesting way!\n\nShe's absolutely my #1 for Webinars and Blogs. \n\nShe's the best :)\n\nSo much great information!\n\nSo very helpful and thanks for great handout!\n\nSome very important concepts that some of us had not considered. Very informative and well presented by Judy who knows "how" to make such a legal presentation in an interesting way.\n\nSorry I had to leave early- had visitors staying who needed breakfast. Content was very clear- especially glad for the info around informed consent.\n\nSpectaclarly helpful and a gripping presentation. Thanks a lot.\n\nSuch a strong, knowledgeable guest speaker. Congrats.\n\nSuper\n\nSuper informative and gives me lots of room for further thought. Wonderful!\n\nSuper Wednesday when Judy Russell speaks\n\nSuperb webinar from Judy -- if I could, would rate it an 11! \n\nTerrific and I need to watch it again to catch what I missed the first time! \n\nThankful for this resource and for Judy's clear explanations.\n\nThanks\n\nThe legal implications of a fun adventure into the past can be very complicated. I will proceed with research for friends much more carefully now.\n\nThis is one webinar I will listen to repeatedly. Jam-packed with important information that needs to be reviewed and understood. Judy is a wonder!\n\nThis ought to be made free to all for all time.\n\nThis was a Wow! Judy was informative, clear, and succinct.\n\nThis was one of the best and most needed Webinars I have seen. Thank you!\n\nthorough but clear and very understandable. Thanks!\n\nThought provoking. Well done.

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4. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   7 years ago

   Exceedingly helpful. Family members were asking my opinion this week, and now I can help answer some of those perplexing questions and send them to the best sources. Thank you very much!\n\n10/10 - Judy Russell is a star presenter!! So clear, so humourous in her teaching, so brilliant - and can I say, her photo/art clips are unique and fun as well-? This was a marvellous webinar on the ethics of DNA testing, reminding everyone that informed consent is the backbone of all genealogy research/sharing. Cheers.\n\n5++++. Powerful! When Judy presents, it is always worth listening! Thanks!\n\nA big WOW!\n\nA lot of detail. A lot of things to think about. A lot of things to do or go back and do.\n\nA real eye opener listened intensely and will watch this one again.\n\nAbsolutely Amazing! She has to be the best! So much knowledge! I am still on the fence to do dna, would like my siblings to do also, but not sure they want to.\n\nAbsolutely Amazing. Thank You!\n\nAll new but absolutely important to know. Plan to watch again as some things have to sink in and permission forms needs to be explored and gotten. Loved it!\n\nalways great\n\nalways so informative!\n\nAn excellent analysis of the topic.\n\nAnother great webinar from Judy Russell!\n\nAnother wonderful presentation by Judy Russell on a very important topic. \n\nAs always, Judy delivered an extremely informative webinar. I've tested and had several relatives test nearly 3 years ago. I now know I need to go back and get the verbal consent from them in writing as well as a designated beneficiary form.\n\nAs always, Judy is absolutely top-notch!! Thanks so much for making this presentation available. Fantastic handout, too! \n\nAs always... a tremendous webinar from Judy Russell! Interesting, informative and entertaining!!\n\nAwesome webinar, so much information and a huge thank you for the web site to download the consent form.\n\nAwesome!!\n\nBest instructor \n\nBest webinar I attended. Will repeat one viewer's comment that this should be required viewing for anyone taking a DNA test. Will add that the concept of consent should be encouraged for anyone sharing (individually or posting online) any of their or others' genealogical information.\n\nBest yet\n\nBrilliant webinar with lots of great advice for moving forward in DNA Testing.\n\nClarified what is needed for future DNA requests and for ones I had already requested. A must of all who test.\n\nClear video and audio, excellent content.\n\nCritical topic, thanks for presenting!\n\nEnjoyed another topic by Judy Russell\n\nEssential information, clearly presented. Judy Russell is THE BEST!\n\nexcellent\n\nExcellent - as usual!\n\nexcellent as always from Judy Russell\n\nExcellent coverage of the legal aspects of DNA research. Thanks\n\nexcellent example on twins and bone marrow.\n\nExcellent explanations, helpful syllabus. Great webinar.\n\nExcellent information every DNA Kit Manager or DNA Mentor needs to know and implement.\n\nExcellent information. Rewatch in order\n\nExcellent presentation on a very important subject. Thank you.\n\nExcellent presentation, never tire of hearing Judy speak, syllabus very useful. Thank you\n\nExcellent topic and Judy was great!\n\nExcellent webinar! Judy is always fantastic & this was no exception. Thanks to Judy, Geoff & Legacy for providing the info.\n\nExcellent! Great food for thought.\n\nexcellent, as always. Thank you, Judy!\n\nExcellent, as are all of Judy's webinars.\n\nExcellent, thorough, covered difficult topics in an easy-to-understand way and with compassion\n\nexcellent, timely and highly informative.\n\nExcellent. I've been reading Blaine's workbook, following on his FB page and reading online updates, but there were things she discussed that enlightened me! Awesome. Thanks. \n\nExcellent - eye opening\n\nEye opening information!\n\nFabulous webinar. The topic was covered in a very clear and entire manner. The presenter, Judy Russell, was brilliant as always.\n\nFANTASTIC

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