Hidden Roots in Your DNA: Adoptee Success & Surprise Discoveries

Richard Hill
Sep 15, 2023
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About this webinar

Learn how adoptees and others find biological parents and siblings through DNA testing. Review the case that started it all and see today’s recommended strategies. View examples of surprise discoveries and see the tools used to identify relationships.

About the speaker

Richard Hill was the first adoptee to identify his birth family through genetic genealogy DNA tests. He shared his story in an award-winning book, "Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets ...
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    Bob Davis
    2 years ago

    This month (thru Sep 30), FamilyTree Webinars is offering all month several new webinars for free viewing before going behind their paywall. (However, their paywall is only $50/yr, and they have over 2,000 webinars with associated syllabuses in their library, over 250 of which relate to DNA - a bargain.)\nI just watched this one by Richard Hill. Richard's impetus was finding his own biological parents. However, this presentation is a great seminar useful for anyone trying to learn about DNA testing. He is slow and methodical and has a well laid out presentation on one topic leading naturally to the next. This is absolutely the best presentation I have seen for any person new to DNA testing and is NOT just limited to adoptees searching for their birth parents.\nIf you have either avoided learning about DNA because of the steep learning curve or would just like to see a very organized presentation of how all the testing fits together and where it can help, this is a great webinar to watch.

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    Valerie Kruse
    2 years ago

    It was great, so bad I miss it.

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    Webinar Viewer
    2 years ago

    This was a fascinating detective story that was deftly broadened into well-organized and clearly presented advice to other adoptees and genealogists.

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    Maria Capaldi
    2 years ago

    I think that adoptees will get some great information from Richard, thank you!

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    Marilyn Poole
    2 years ago

    Excellent. Very helpful information. Thank you!

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    Zina Urrutia
    2 years ago

    I love the webinars because I am new to genealogy and they are really helping me to understand what I need to do to locate my family members.

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    Corinne Fordschmid
    2 years ago

    WOW! Very clear, helpful and interesting. Thanks a lot.

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    Yvie Wetzelberger
    2 years ago

    Very informative. I am looking for an unknown grandfather so perhaps a video about this would also be helpful.