Four Factors Influencing Your DNA Ethnicity Results

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1. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   4 years ago

   This webinar helped me better understand my DNA results.\n\nVery appreciative you're doing this. Have only attended one so far, but looking forward to more.\n\nVery clear and enthusiastic. \n\nVery clear and helpful\n\nVery clear for beginner DNA\n\nVery clear presentation- very enjoyable. It helps to know the strengths of the various DNA sites. Thank you!\n\nVery clearly explained - thank you!\n\nvery good\n\nVery good but a lot of information to absorb in 45 minutes...\n\nvery good!!!!\n\nvery helpful\n\nvery helpful and clearly presented.\n\nVery Helpful and easy to understand. Excellent Webinar!\n\nVery helpful coverage of the topic, making a complex topic more understandable. Thanks! \n\nVery helpful explanation about how ethnicity estimates are determined.\n\nVERY helpful explanation on unconscious bias between testing companies\n\nVery helpful in understanding the BIG picture of DNA and appreciated the information on how useful the Technology of DNA analysis into smaller groupings is to help find that missing ancestor.\n\nVery informative and filled with lots of things to consider. Confirmed some of what I've found and figured out, but also some things that really bring me back to reality!\n\nVery informative! Answered a lot of my questions about DNA ethnicity, why it's different at different companies, and why their results may change over time. Thanks Diahan. And thanks to the organizers.\n\nVery informative! Diahan has an innate teaching skill. Thank you!\n\nVery informative! Thanks!\n\nVery informative! I've been mostly dismissive of my ethnicity.admixture estimates, but now I'll pay more attention. \n\nVery informative, scientific explanation in a very easy to understand format. \n\nVery informative.\n\nvery interesting\n\nVery interesting presentation of how and why ethnicity estimates vary between testing companies.\n\nVery interesting presentation. So informative & explained so well. Look forward to more by this presenter in Sept.. Thank you so much.\n\nVery Interesting! Thank you!\n\nVery interesting!!!\n\nVERY knowledgeable and informative presentation, also best for the kickoff of the 24 hours\n\nVery thorough and informative!\n\nVery thorough and with outstanding visuals and clarity from the pannelist.\n\nVery useful information.\n\nVery well done\n\nVery well presented! Good information!\n\nVery well presented, although I'm still a bit foggy on the details. Will keep at it. Thanks.\n\nvery well understood\n\nWe love Diahan!\n\nWell done for the limited time available.\n\nWell done! \n\nWhat a great way to start the 24 hour webinars\n\nWill definitely have to watch again!\n\nWonderful lecturer!\n\nWonderful presentation by Diahan, and Geoff too!!! Very clear info, explained with helpful analogies and illustrations. Looking forward to buying and reading the book! And can't wait to download the syllabus. Thank you so much!!!\n\nWonderful presentation! Diahan was well prepared!\n\nWonderful to see a new perspective on DNA testing, presented in an understandable and interesting way. Thanks.\n\nWonderful!\n\nWonderful! I learn something each time I listen to Diahan!\n\nWonderful, as usual!\n\nwow! where can I hire someone with this kind of knowledge? My husband can be traced back 9 generations on his surname, but YDNA gives his predominate matches as another surname.

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2. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   4 years ago

   Love her examples. She always helps me gain a better understanding & shows me possible next steps to use the information. \n\nLove her pace, the analogies, handout 'art', and enthusiasm.. My background in math and science is minimal (thanks California experimental education) so I'm starting from the very basics. I'm also pleased that her sessions are recorded so I can re-listen. She gives so much information.\n\nLove listening to Diana. Always makes learning fun!\n\nLove the way Diane teaches. It makes a complicated topic easier to understand\n\nLoved it! I always learn so much from Diahan.\n\nLoved the presenter's enthusiasm and analogies to help us better understand the science behind DNA matching.\n\nMakes it so easy to understand DNA\n\nMy favorite presenter with always something new to take away!\n\nMy understanding of how my DNA is determined has been beautiifully answered. Thanks\n\nneed more\n\nNice job or presenting - easy to understand. thanks\n\nNice quick pacing. Informative.\n\nnice to know the factors considered in judging ethnicity\n\nObvious expert in DNA methodology. Glad to hear AncestryDNA ranked so high and understanding my results which have changed over time presumably because of larger population groups or refined algorithms. Will need to review prsentation again to better understand nuances.\n\nOne of my favorite speakers\n\npresenter was very enthusiastic and clear in visuals and explanations of a complex topic\n\nPretty basic, but did provide some useful information.\n\nPrior to this webinar, I only knew Ancestry announcing that they were updating their ethnicity results. Now I must check the others.\n\nreally good. wanted more about native american dna\n\nReally interesting. Learned lots. Thank you.\n\nRecall and Precision a bit confusing\n\nShe always does a great job. Makes a complex issue understandable.\n\nShe explains everything so clearly Thank you\n\nShe has a command of the topic and presented the information in a logical sequence. She is obviously prepared in her presentation. Kudos.\n\nShe is always excellent!\n\nShe is always fantastic. Please have her more often.\n\nShe is always so perky and so easy to understand. It is a pleasure, not a chore, to listen to her explain things. \n\nShe is always so prepared and presents her material so clearly. Outstanding speaker.\n\nShe was great! Easy to listen to and very interesting.\n\nShe's good!\n\nSimple, direct presentation from knowledgable presentor.\n\nSo informative. I've learned so much. Thank you!\n\nSo much help with the basis of the science of DNA brought to us in an entertaining and understandable way.\n\nSo much new info for me. I will revisit this in the library.\n\nStill trying to understand all of this.\n\nSuch a relatable speaker, it was easy to understand complicated concepts because she explains them so well and her analogies are great.\n\nSuper teacher!!!\n\nSuper Webinar\n\nThank you for the information. Clear presentation. It would have been nice to expand on how each company reports their results and what they mean. There was a quick mention about how MyHeritage gives you a description of where your matches are from but that was it.\nThank you!\n\nThanks for making so many ""areas"" clearer. But I'm still baffled about some things.\n\nThe comparisons of the various DNA companies was very interesting and informative.\n\nthe enthusiasm of the presenter was infectious. \n\nThe graphics are great!\n\nThe information was very general and well presented. I'm looking forward, however, to going to the free link that Diahan gave to next-steps to flush the info out even more. I have to think about what I learned today. I'm pleased that she'll be back in September to answer questions.\n\nThis really helped explain ethnicity percentages.\n\nThis was a great explanation of a complicated subject! I now understand what I'm looking at in my ethnicity results! Thank you!\n\nThis was another great webinar! Thank you!\n\nThis was excellent. I have DNA results from two companies that list the same places of origin but with wildly different percentages. This lecture was SO helpful in understanding how that could happen. Thanks!\n\nThis was very interesting and easy to understand.\n\nThis webinar gave me a start to some of my questions after being tested with two different companies. The Graphics were very helpful and I appreciated the simple way a topic was explained so that it was not so scary.

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3. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   4 years ago

   Great presenter! Makes a difficult topic easier to understand.\n\nGreat presenter. Not sure it has helped a newbie \n\ngreat speaker\n\nGreat webinar!\n\ngreat webinar! I always learn something new when Diahan has a presentation, Thanks!\n\nGreat webinar. Thank you Diahan.\n\nGreat! Informative, and even kinda fun for 'fancy math'!! lol!\n\nHope 5 is best. Diahan never fails to educate others with her enthusiasm, knowledge, comparisons, graphics and reach all levels of understanding! A Fan!\n\nI always enjoy Diahan's presentations!\n\nI always enjoy webinars with Diahan because her passion and knowledge of the subject totally lock me in ! Thanks!\n\nI always learn something new and that is most enjoyable. Thank you.\n\nI always learn something new from Diahan Southard. I plan on listening to this Webinar again as I want to know which DNA testing companies will offer me what I'm looking for. I'd like to know how GEDMatch does their matches since they have people who test with different companies. I'll save that question for Diahan's Webinar in September.\n\nI always love learning from Diahan. She has so much to teach.\n\nI am a geneticist (PhD Biology) and genealogist for 60 years. Your talk was very good and accurate.\n\nI appreciate how Diahan Southard always makes complicated explanations understandable.\n\nI have stopped looking at my ethnicity report but I was wrong. What an eye opener to look again. Thank you, great, great lesson!\n\nI learned a lot from her clear teaching and diagrams.\n\nI love Diahan.\n\nI love Diahan; she always gives a great presentation and makes difficult subjects easy and fun!\n\nI love the way Dianah Southard explains DNA ethnicity results to the unscientific minded. Her graphics and analogies are very helpful. \n\nI loved understanding better how to use family groups and why some ethnicity doesn't show up in my cousin's DNA. Thank you!\n\nI missed the first half so need to go back and see the whole thing. It was very interesting.\n\nI need 70 more years!!! So little time, so many nifty things to test, research, etc.!\n\nI need to find out more about DNA\n\nI never understood about the algorhythms before. She did a great job explaining that.\n\nI never want to miss a presentation by Diahan Southard!\n\nI really enjoyed the presentation but it was so quick I will need to watch it again. Lots of information to digest. Thank you.\n\nI really enjoyed the webinar. Diahne is the best teacher\n\nI will have to watch it again to be able to think about each of the 4 factors. \n\ninformative\n\nInformative and interesting\n\nInteresting ways to explain concepts that can be jargon-laden. \n\nInteresting!\n\nIt was very eye opening.\n\nit was very informative\n\nIt was very interesting and very pertinent to the question I just got from my mother-in-law who wants to know why her son doesn't have any German when she is so much German. Thanks.\n\nIt was very interesting! She was a good teacher!\n\njust getting into looking closely at our DNA results and this was a great beginning \n\nLearn a lot\n\nLearned a great deal. \n\nlearned a lot that I've never heard before!\n\nLearned a lot!! Excellent presentation!\n\nLearned more specifics about certain aspects of the DNA evaluation process and some additional things to chack out! Great job!\n\nLearned several new things!\n\nLearning from an expert!\n\nLearnt so much from this webinar. A very clear and precise speaker.\n\nLooking forward to more.\n\nLots of information and common sense\n\nLove Diahan. She makes DNA understandable.\n\nLove Diahan. Thank you.

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4. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   4 years ago

   Excellent presentation, clear explanations!\n\nExcellent presentation. Well prepared, and enthusiastic presenter. \n\nExcellent presenter\n\nExcellent speaker! \n\nExcellent speaker! Kept things informative and interesting.\n\nexcellent speaker, presentation was made interesting & easy to understand. Thanks\n\nExcellent webinar\n\nexcellent well done and so informative\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent! As she always is!\n\nexcellent!!\n\nExcellent!! Diahan explains everything so well. I have tested my autosomal at the beginning when it was offered. Now I get the ethnicity piece of it much better as it has evolved. Thank you!!\n\nExcellent, as she always is! This is definitely going to be reviewed later. Thank you.\n\nExcellent. Diahan's topics are always fresh; she doesn't repeat herself and all topics are relevant to current updates to companies.\n\nExcellent. Learned alot!!\n\nExcellent. Thank you!\n\nfantastic\n\nFANTASTIC speaker, easy to follow\n\nFantastic! Diahan is so good at framing complex issues so they make sense!\n\nfantastic\n\nFast paced but very clearly presented.\n\nFinally I can understand why the results came out the way they did. Thanks to Dihan! \n\nFull of valuable info to inform us about DNA testing and matches.\n\nGood comparison of the major testing companies.\n\nGood information!\n\nGood informations.\n\nGood overview of how DNA results are gathered/grouped. Lots of good energy on part of presenter. Unsure if one DNA company is better than another since data was not available from all for comparison.\n\ngood understandable summary\n\nGood update to RootsTech presentation. Thanks Diahan\n\ngreat\n\ngreat\n\nGreat \n\nGreat easy to understand presentation! Wish there was a free outline.\n\ngreat explanation as usual.\n\nGreat explanation of DNA results\n\nGreat fun and good start for the marathon\n\nGreat graphics to demonstrate each factor. Very easy to understand.\n\nGreat info. Unfortunately I came in late.\n\nGreat information and very well presented\n\ngreat information but will need to listen (recorded) again to absorb content1\n\nGreat information! That was super fast! Rewatching is a must! Thank you for recording!\n\nGreat job Diane!\n\nGreat kick-off! \n\nGreat lecture...she is always very straight forward and easy to understand\n\ngreat new information for me. thanks!\n\nGreat overview. Need more in depth info to actually utilize these techniques.\n\nGreat powerpoint slides. Lucid explanations.\n\nGreat presentation\n\nGreat presentation!

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5. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   4 years ago

   Diahan is fantastic about explaining DNA and always gives great, practical examples. \n\nDiahan is fantastic!\n\nDiahan is simply one of the best people to learn about DNA and your DNA test results.\n\nDiahan is the best presenter you have!\n\nDiahan is very enthusiastic and talks at an understandable level. \n\nDiahan is very vocally animated and relatable. She makes DNA more accessible and easier to understand than just looking at the charts and numbers seem. While I generally understood why my DNA ethnicity results vary across the different companies, her explanation really helped.\n\nDiahan knows her stuff! What a great explanation about how our ethnicity is determined!\n\nDiahan made things clear and understandable. And fun!\n\nDiahan Southard always brings her A Game!\n\nDiahan Southard is a wonderful speaker- she explains everything clearly and in common sense language.\n\nDiahan was fabulous as always! I love her analogies to make the science easier to understand. Great way to start the webinar marathon!\n\nDiahann is always a great speaker.\n\nDiahan's always excellent.\n\nDiahan's pp graphics are wonderful. She is a master at explaining a difficult subject in lay persons terms. \n\nDiahan's presentation and analogies superb and positive as always. \n\nDiahnn took a complex topic and made this portion very understandable. Love her energy too.\n\nDIAN IS SUCH AN INTERESTING SPEAKER AND SHE EXPLAINS THINGS VERY WELL. I'M GLAD I SIGNED UP\n\nDiane covered a lot of ground in the limited time available. Great presentation\n\nDiane is always so clear and understood!!\n\nDiane made understanding DNA technology easy! Thanks!!!\n\nDiane's presentations are the best - so clear, I always feel I've gained a lot more answers. Thank you\n\nDianne is amazing! Thanks!\n\nDianne is amazing. I always learn something!\n\nDianne's presentation was lively, enthusiastic and informational as usual.\n\nDihan is an excellent speaker she simplifies the complex.\n\neasy to understand\n\nEasy to understand and fun!\n\nEasy to understand and interesting.\n\nEasy to understand. The comparisons of different providers out there very helpful. I have results from 3 of them and now can better weigh the quality and use of the results.\n\nEnthusiastic speaker with lots of basic info. Glad it's recorded so I can go back and listen again. Thanks.\n\nEverything is clearly explained. Her graphics also help with this. I always learn something new.\n\nEverything she said was understandable and a great deal of information in a short time period. Thanks for a great presentation, Diane!\n\nexcellent\n\nEXCELLENT\n\nExcellent - great info and presenter. I learned a lot.\n\nExcellent and easy to comprehend.\n\nExcellent and understandable. Thanks Diahan.\n\nexcellent as always\n\nexcellent as always\n\nexcellent as usual\n\nExcellent as usual - and so much fun to listen to.\n\nExcellent content - the examples really helped me to understand some new concepts. Thank you!\n\nExcellent graphics! Great presenter! Useful info!\n\nExcellent information. Very clear and easy to understand. One of the best presenters I've heard/seen!\n\nExcellent interesting speaker. First time I have attended one of her presentations.\n\nexcellent metaphors! great teacher!\n\nExcellent overview, thank you. \n\nExcellent overvue. Very informative speaker.\n\nExcellent presentation as always - materials and presenting skills\n\nexcellent presentation, allowed me to have more understanding on dna

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6. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   4 years ago

   A great insight into the ethnicity at different sites and how it all works, so well presented \n\nA great presentation, thank you \n\nA great webinar! Diahann is awesome! Thank you.\n\nA lot of good info and clarification on what actually takes place on the DNA sites.\n\nAgain, Diahan Southard has presented an outstanding webinar with great use of analogies to make somewhat difficult topics understandable. Bravo!\n\nAlways a favorite\n\nalways a wealth of information. She puts it in a way we can understand.Thank you\n\nAlways enjoy Diahan's webinars and learn (relearn!) lots from them. A great start to the next 26 hours. Thanks so much, appreciate the time everyone has put into this\n\nAlways enjoy her way of informing!\n\nAlways great information.\n\nAlways learn something new with Diahan. Excellent analogiees.\n\nAlways learn something when Dian gives a webinar!\n\nAlways love Diahan's presentations. Learn something new every time. Today was especially useful in understanding how our DNA results are presented \n\nAlways love Diahan's webinar's, she explains things beautifully \n\nAlways love these webinars\n\nAlways one of the Best Presenters!\n\nAnother excellent webinar. Always something new to learn.\n\nAs Alan Partridge would say ........Ah Ha !!\n\nAs always, Diahan did a stellar job of presenting a sometimes confusing topic.\n\nAs always, Diane does a good job translating complicated processes into understandable concepts. Good job\n\nAs always, very informative!! Thank you so much!! :D\n\nAwesome - new information for me and easy to understand and grasp the concept. Many thanks for enriching my searches.\n\nAwesome! Thanks!\n\nBrilliant speaker and presenter of the Powerpoint. definitely no death by PowerPoint from that presentation! She knows her stuff.....\n\nBrilliant, as always. She never fails to give me new things to think about and follow up on.\n\nClarified things for me with ethnicity and percentages and how it is calculated. Thanks! Super positive speaker!\n\nClear explanations, excellent charts. Thank you.\n\nClear presentation. Was able to follow along.\n\nComplex material made easy to understand. Thank you for comparing the different companies. I have results from Ancestry and Living DNA that correspond both based on the same sample and results from FamilyTree from a sample I submitted many years ago. I was shocked to see how different the results were for FamilyTree. I think I have a much better idea why that would be the case now.\n\nconfident informative presentation\n\nDiahan always explains DNA so it is understandable!\n\nDiahan always has a good way to help us understand the science\n\nDiahan always has such great analogies that make the confusing DNA topic easier to understand.\n\nDiahan always informative\n\nDiahan always presents useful information that makes you want to immediately go try what you've learned! Great way to start the marathon sessions!\n\nDiahan ALWAYS terrific.\n\nDiahan get so excited about DNA -- gets me excited also!!\n\nDiahan has again taken a technical and complicate subject then simplified it to laymen terms.\n\nDiahan is always a pleasure to listen to and learn from!\n\nDiahan is always amazing!\n\nDiahan is always amazing! So relieved that she finally answered so many questions our family had about "how did they come up with that??" And her enthusiastic presentation style did truly kick off this webinar to the stratosphere! Thank you!\n\nDiahan is always excellent! today was no exception. Fascinating to learn how to use ethnicity results. I can now say I have much more confidence in my recently revised results! thank you!\n\nDiahan is always great and I look forward to her presentations. \n\nDiahan is always great! She covers interesting and useful information in a way that is understandable -- not easy with DNA.\n\nDiahan is always great.\n\nDiahan is always great. I never understand all of it, but put together more each time. Love it!\n\nDiahan is always informative! Terrific speaker! More, More, More!!!!\n\nDiahan is always so interesting, energetic, and understandable. Keep her coming!\n\nDiahan is always super. She makes sense and is animated so that she keeps you awake. \n\nDiahan is always wonderful to listen to!

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