Content
Welcome
2m 49s
Speaker's Introduction
52s
Introduction
3m 27s
DNA Inheritance
8m 21s
Relationships
15m 40s
Endogamy
5m 41s
Working with 4th Cousins
19m 30s
Announcements / prizes
9m 7s
Questions / answers
24m 37s
About this webinar
If you have seen the results from an autosomal DNA test you have likely seen a long long list of 4th cousins. Who are all of these people? Are all of them relevant to my family history research? How do I go about figuring that out? We will cover the tools available at your DNA testing company that will help you sort and filter your match list, to present you with only your Best Matches, those who are most able to help you with your genealogical questions. We will learn both analysis and organizational techniques that are sure to add another leaf to your dinner table.
\nAbout the speaker
Diahan Southard knows firsthand what a difference it can make to know where you came from. What started off as an educational and career interest in genetic genealogy became deeply personal when she u...
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Very clear explanations! \n\nVery clear information. Engaging. Very interesting and novel graphics to explain DNA inheritance, etc. Thank yo so much for this excellent presentation. \n\nVery clear.\n\nVery easy to understand.\n\nvery educational\n\nvery fast moving and interesting and understandable!\n\nVery good\n\nVery helpful information given.\n\nVery informational and easy to follow.\n\nVERY informational and VERY well presented! Diahan is wonderful! Thanks!\n\nvery informative\n\nVery informative & a lot of information.\n\nVery informative and well presented.\n\nVery informative enjoyed it!\n\nVery informative!\n\nVery informative.\n\nvery informative. site a little confusing to navigate\n\nvery interesting and easy to understand\n\nVery interesting speaker and very knowledgeable\n\nVery interesting, well presented information!\n\nVery logically presented. \n\nVERY NICELY EXPLAINED\n\nVery organized and clearly presented with good visuals.\n\nVery organized and easy to understand. Thanks!\n\nVery, very good and informative.\n\nVisuals shown today are very helpful\n\nway over my head\n\nWell done, but the subject still confuses me.\n\nwell explained. great presentation\n\nwell paced and well illustrated, plus good Q&A at the end.\n\nWhen is Diahan going to do a talk on Edogamy?? That would be excellent!\n\nWhoa, a lot to absorb!\n\nWill probably rank this 5 after going over the recorded session. ;)\n\nWONDERFUL AND INFORMATIVE WEBINAR. THANK YOU DIAHAN! :)\n\nwonderful presentation and presenter\n\nwonderful presentation re: the subject matter... will have to replay several times to get it to sink in... loved it\n\nWonderful webinar!\n\nWonderful! I understand so much more about using DNA now. Thank you!\n\nWow! This is the 1st time I feel hopeful that I can learn to use my DNA. I'm going to listen to this multiple times and listen to the presenters other webinars.
She covers alot of good information\n\nShe did a great job of explaining & I feel I finally understand some of the concepts, but so much more. Still confusing but I will continue learning. \n\nShe is a great speaker! Makes things clear, good illustrations, good stories, interesting voice, knowledgeable.\n\nShe is always fantastic and there is always something new to learn. Thanks to all.\n\nShe is always fantastic. Please keep bringing her back.\n\nSHE IS AMAZING - GREAT WEBINAR\n\nShe is great at explaining complicated things concisely--helps make a complex topic easier to understand.\n\nShe is one awesome presenter, I learn something every time I listen to one of her webinars. I have done a second set of DNA kits at Legacy just after Thanksgiving but am still waiting for my results. \n\nShe is one of the best presenters you have in your library. I try to listen to her every time she is on. I have her book, but I think I can understand the book better after I have listened to her lectures.\n\nShe presents DNA more clearly than any other speaker that I have heard. \n\nsimply outstanding\n\nSo amazing to hear Diahan explain DNA! Wonderful!\n\nSo clear ! thanks a lot\n\nso helpful--it's so much easier to understand when you see it laid out in such a wonderful visual presentation-thanks!!\n\nSo much doable information!!!! I need to get started. \n\nSo much good information. I feel I have a better idea of what matches mean when I have a 4th cousin match. Thank you so much!\n\nSo much to learn on researching DNA. Now I have to find time to study more and try to step through with what I learned today.\n\nso so good ! and I am not getting tired of these- I need them !!!!!!!!!!!!!\n\nSometimes it is difficult to understand if you are not a native English speaking person, it would help to speak a little bit slower.\n\nThank you so much.\n\nStraight-forward explanations and great graphics.\n\nSuch a helpful webinar. DNA is beginning to make a little more sense to me. \n\nSuper DNA instruction as always from Diahan!\n\nsuper. back to my DNA results to find great grandmother.\n\nSuperb! Excellent slides supporting the lecture. \n\nSuperb, with the processes explained so well. I'm ordering the ebook :-)\n\nTerrific - gave me several ToDo's\n\nThank you for discount codes for your book and downloads.\n\nThank you for offering programs like this!\n\nThank you for the excellent webinar!\n\nthank you!\n\nThanks for all the info that I now need to process\n\nThanks for so much information Diahan! \n\nThe information was mind-boggling but her explanations were easy to follow - I just need to learn more about DNA so I am more familiar with the terminology used. She's right, though, this makes me want to spend the afternoon learning more!\n\nThis is the most comprehensible webinar on DNA that I have listened to thus far. I am encouraged that I will succeed. Thank you - thank you!\n\nThis was a great learning tool for us beginners. Being a member is great because I can watch it again and try to absorb it more.\n\nThis was my favorite seminar to date. Very good explanations/analogies for some things that lots of people just don't get. Very thorough and easy to follow the logic. Thanks!\n\nThis was my first webinar with Legacy and I didn't realize it was an Intermediate course for DNA. I am a beginner at best for DNA. I was totally lost, but, at least I learned a couple of things, just wish I could have kept up with the presentation and take notes at the same time. I definitely got some knowledge from it. Thank you for the presentation. Next time, I will be better prepared.\n\nThis webinar was filled with information and practical guides to further one's research. I am amazed at the quality and content of this webinar!\n\nTons of new information for me, now I have to figure this out!\n\nToo deep for me. Sorry.\n\ntoo much info to keep track of short time\n\nTop-notch presentation
Helpful in understanding who the various cousins especially the removed ones are in relation to me\n\nHer webinars are the very best for DNA. Always learn something new, interesting and useful.\n\nI always learn so much from Diahan Southard. This one gave me some specific steps to do on my own DNA which I'm going to do now!!!\n\nI always learn so much from Diahan. Thanks\n\nI always learn something from Diahan's webinars. She does a wonderful job making DNA understandable.\n\nI always learn something new from Diahan Southard!\n\nI always learn something new from Diahan.\n\nI always learn something new from Diahann and love her encouragement.\n\nI always learn something new from Diahan's webinars.\n\nI always walk away from Diahan's webinar feeling that I can do this. Excellent presentation\n\nI am not a beginner but always learn more every time I hear Diahan speak! Excellent! Thank you!\n\nI enjoy Diahan very much. She makes it easier for me to understand DNA.\n\nI find DNA terribly confusing! Diahan's webinar will help me next time I stare at all my matches...and my eyes glaze over. Thanks for today's help.\n\nI have a lot of work to do now that I learned more about DNA\n\nI just love Diahan's webinars. She makes it sound doable so it helps me keep going.\n\nI know now I need to learn more. \n\nI learn something new every time.......thank you.\n\nI learned a lot!\n\nI learned so much! Thank you for offering this webinar! Diahan Southard is a wonderful teacher!\n\nI learned something new... then it means it was a fantastic class! I found Diahan’s advice wonderful.\n\nI love Diahan's webinars. She explains DNA so well and along with her illustrations makes it much easier to understanding.\n\nI loved the new concepts that I haven't used before, particularly with the different websites!\n\nI never miss a Diane Southard seminar.\n\nI really enjoy Diahan's easy way to explaing things and her great visuals!\n\nI really like the step by step way you present things. This is one of the best I have seen!!!!!\n\nI struggle with learning how to read DNA results, etc. and this has helped me. Now, I need to go to the library and watch some pre-recorded webinars on DNA.\n\nI think it was an excellent presentation. I have a lot of experience using DNA with my genealogy. It's good to know I am doing it right. I have built out my tree far and wide so I have the advantage of being able to place 100s of DNA matches in my tree. I can almost tell where a new match fits by known shared matches. I am always intrigued when someone matches more than one line. And the communities ancestry has identified are spot on for me and about 10 kits I manage. \n\nI will need to listen to this one again! So good!\n\nIf I got nothing else out of this I now understand what a cM is!\n\ninteresting , but some of it a bit overwhelming. I will need to watch the video again a few times to fully understand. Great presenter though!\n\nIt answered questions I've been asking myself. Will be able to look at matches differently. Especially appreciated the final comment that we can do it!!!\n\nIt gave me closer look at the DNA bounds. Good as the first step for better understanding.\n\nIt is always a pleasure to hear Diahan talk she takes the complexity out of a very complex subject.\n\nIt was a great webinar and presented very well. Thank you.\n\nIt was fantastic. I didn't understand a lot of it but I can go back and listen again and work on someone until I figure it out. I have a few people who are not attached and am not sure what that means exactly but there is hope for me lol. Thanks for a great webinar. I am much wiser now than before it started.\n\nIt was very informative. I learned so much about finding mu 4th cousins.\n\nI've learned so much today! I have not paid attention to my DNA matches because I had no idea where to start. I am now raring to go! Thank you Diahan!
Just wonderful, I will get the book.\n\nKnowledgeable speaker! Informative. \n\nLearn so much but my head is spinning.\n\nLearned a lot of new information.\n\nLearned a lot. Very informative!\n\nlearned so much, DNA testing and all that goes with it is starting to make more sense.\n\nLearned some things to help me solve some of my questions\n\nLearned something new which is always good. Thanks for that.\n\nlearned what 1XR etc is as I was unsure\n\nLooking forward to using her information in my research\n\nLooking forward towards your next talk!\n\nlots of info thanks\n\nlots of information. Interesting to find out more about how many relationships can exist with same # cM and how to use the info.\n\nLots of information--now to try to apply it. Will need to listen to this webinar again.\n\nLots to digest.\n\nLove Diahan!\n\nLove her webinars! \n\nloved it - thanks, have to leave for another appt but will be checking this out further! \n\nLoved it! Very informative!\n\nLoved it.\n\nMakes me want to get back into my results and try again. I got Diahan's book for a Christmas gift - I can do it!!\n\nMind-boggling, but thanks for my intro to dna relationships!\n\nMust listen again as overwhelming\n\nNow I need her book!\n\nNow if I can only put all this into practice! (I know Diahan will sayYou can!) ;-)\n\nnow it seems even more difficult.\n\none of the best webinar classes that I have taken \n\nThank you \n\nPhenomenal! Researching the old way and the DNA way for years. There is always more to learn! Diahan’s presentation was clear, concise and informative challenges me to adopt new ways of thinking and approaches. Thanks!!\n\nPretty Good, lots of information in a short length of time. Presenter was good.
Enjoyed it - and have to watch again.\n\nEnlightening! Diahan is very clear in her presentation of information and it is very rewarding to attend her webinars; I always learn a lot! Thank you Diahan!\n\nEven after watching many of Diahan's webinars, I continue to learn new things. Diahan is great at encouraging us to plug along with our match lists! \n\nEvery time I've heard Diahan Southard speak, whether in person or virtually, she's always done an excellent job at explaining and presenting her topic. I promoted today's webinar to our local DNA discussion group.\n\nExcellent\n\nExcellent\n\nexcellent - great information!\n\nexcellent and I hope I dont forget 80% by tomorrow.. lol. I DID take notes and downloaded handout! :-) \n\nExcellent as always. If I watch this and her others about 10 more times I may finally understand.\n\nExcellent content. Thanks for the freebie download!\n\nExcellent explanation coupled with cute diagrams to explain some very difficult concepts.\n\nExcellent information\n\nExcellent information \n\nExcellent presentation!\n\nExcellent presentation! So informative on DNA. I'm going to watch it again!\n\nExcellent presentation!!!\n\nExcellent presentation, very informative\n\nexcellent presenter\n\nEXCELLENT SPEAKER -- EASY TO FOLLOW AND UNDERSTAND!!!\n\nExcellent speaker, she knows her stuff.\n\nExcellent speaker. I always learn something.\n\nExcellent step by step\n\nExcellent summary and refresher for first 3 weeks of Diahan's workshopDNA Skills which is fascinating and very challenging. Diahan has an excellent method and is so encouraging.\n\nExcellent webinar as always.\n\nExcellent webinar by Diahan, as always!\n\nExcellent webinar! Very easy to follow and a lot of useful content.\n\nExcellent webinar. Picked up a lot of information to use.\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent!\n\nEXCELLENT!\n\nExcellent! DNA is challenging, but Diahan did an excellent job during her webinar. I am very excited to go to Ancestry and work with my 3rd cousins!\n\nExcellent! I have some work to do but have better knowledge how to evaluate my matches.\n\nExcellent! Worth every minute! No equal in ability to break down and explain a difficult subject. \n\nexcellent!!\n\nExcellent!!!\n\nExceptional webinar. \n\nExplanation of removed cousins was detailed and comprhensible.\n\nExtremely helpful and well explained! As always!\n\nFabulous presentation.\n\nFantastic - Diahan is a terrific teacher. I need to hear the information again & again. Thank you!\n\nFantastic webinar with lots of great information. Will watch again to gain fullest use of all the information provided.\n\nFantastic webinar, as usual! Diahan is the easiest to understand out of all of the DNA speakers in my opinion.\n\nFantastic! \n\nFantastic! Very informative---getting my wheels turning for sure!\n\nFound the topics/concepts discussed very helpful.\n\nGave good examples - like the licorice example - that will help as I try to look at thiswonky subject!\n\nGives me many new avenues to explore.\n\nGood speaker\n\nGreat\n\nGreat and easy to learn from\n\nGreat and robust presentation. Glad I have a membership and I'll be able to review parts in the future.\n\ngreat explanations\n\nGreat explanations and visual - best I've seen for removed cousins. She was very knowledgeable and dove deeper than a lot of people would, which I really appreciated. Thank you!\n\nGreat graphics, really helped with understanding. I ordered the book. Thanks!\n\nGreat info, too the point it is over my head\n\nGreat information and of course, Diahan is a great presenter.\n\nGreat information from Diahan. Thank you.\n\nGreat information! So interesting to learn more about how much DNA is shared as you get farther away. One thing I learned is that I should be using my mom's DNA for her side of the family (she and I were both tested) rather than my own, which is what I've been using. That should have been obvious! Another good thing to know is the limitations on shared DNA in helping with ancestors. Thank you! I'm looking forward to listening again!\n\nGreat information, as always, and very professionally presented. \n\nGreat information. Can't wait to try out some of her strategies!\n\nGreat job! Loved it.\n\nGreat job. One topic was great and it was presented logically with lots of answers\n\nGreat organization to how to do the analysis.\n\nGreat presentation!! Love Diahan's webinars.\n\nGreat presentation. Very clear and concise. Very easy to follow.\n\nGreat refresher with added new info - worth the time\n\nGreat review, thanks\n\nGreat session.\n\nGreat speaker. \n\ngreat stuff will have to watch it again to take it all in\n\nGreat webinar\n\nGreat webinar. Good tips and processes to follow.\n\nGreat! Enjoyed - made my education improve. \n\nGreat.
Definitely need to watch this one again! \n\nDiahan always has a way of breaking down this subject into easier concepts. Thanks.\n\nDiahan does a great job of illustrating analogies to assist our understanding of difficult concepts. I always learn new things and I SO enjoy her presentations. Thank you. \n\nDiahan does a really nice job of explaining a complicated subject.\n\nDiahan has such a wonderful ability to take a complicated subject and make it sound simple. The graphics and analogies are excellent. Thank you Diahan, for sharing your knowledge and expertise with the rest of us!\n\nDiahan is a great speaker. She explains things so well. I understand more about learning how my matches could connect with me.\n\nDiahan is a great speaker. Her visual presentation is outstanding!\n\nDiahan is always a great presentation!\n\nDiahan is always amazing and makes a difficult subject much more easily understood\n\nDiahan is always fantastic ... love all her webinars and her book!\n\nDiahan is always terrific!\n\nDiahan is always very infomative.\n\nDiahan is great\n\nDiahan is great at explaining how to use DNA data. I continue to learn more each time she gives a webinar. I just need to put her method to use within the next 24 hours to keep it fresh. Since I have her book that also helps and I can go back and replay the webinar if needed.\n\nDiahan is great. Always enjoy her seminars\n\nDiahan is so good about breaking the DNA information into pieces that can be understood. This was a great, informative, enjoyable webinar!\n\nDiahan is so knowledgeable and able to make her presentations very interesting and understandable. \n\nDiahan is such a good teacher! She knows how to express a concept in its essential form without cluttering the idea with too many details, and, her graphics are the icing on her narrative cake. Even an experienced genetic genealogist can learn about how to communicate the complexities of DNA from her teaching style. Thank you Legacy for bringing Diahan back.\n\nDiahan is the best!\n\nDiahan is very personable & knowledgable. She knows how to get her thoughts across to you.\n\nDiahan is, as usual, full of tons of information that I can use to further my knowledge of DNA research. Now to just find the time to use what I gathered.\n\nDiahan Southard is a very knowledgeable speaker, especially for DNA. She explains the hows and whys with her slides, and I have learned a lot from her. Thank you.\n\nDiahan Southard is always great. Will have to watch again\n\nDiahan Southard is an entertaining and interesting presenter. She is good at explaining difficult concepts in layman's terms with diagrams.\n\nDiahan Southard is such a good presenter! I always learn something from attending her webinars.\n\nDiahan Southard is the best! Her webinars are terrific. \n\nDiahan Southard, once again, has provided another very informative and educational easy-to-follow step-by-step presentation. Thank you!!!\n\nDiahan was excellent as always!\n\nDiahan was EXCELLENT!!! I will be signing up for every webinar she has. She was so easy to follow along with and understand. I think I finally might be getting this DNA stuff now:) LOL\n\nDiahan was superb as usual.\n\nDiahann always makes a complex subject understandable.\n\nDiahan's presentations are always excellent, informative, helpful and so interesting! Thank you! : )\n\nDiahan's presentations are always very well done - clear explanations and useful video shots\n\nDiahan's webinars are also great!\n\nDiahan's webinars are always great and very informative. \n\nDiahan's webinars are presented in such an amazing, understandable manner.\n\nDiahan's webinars are the best!\n\nDiana did a great job. Thank you!\n\nDiane's webminars are always among the best!\n\nDNA can be confusing. Thank you for your help. I understand more with every webinar I attend.
-- learn more each time!!!! Thanks so much to Legacy webinars and Diahan Southard ;-)\n\nA lot of very good information and loved the comfortable format. Thanks for your time -- AND discounts, too. \n\nAbsolutely fabulous. Thank you so very much. So interesting. Such a lot to understand\n\nAlways a 5+ for Diahan\n\nAlways a pleasure to sit in on one of Diahan's webinars.\n\nAlways enjoy Danhan's webinars\n\nalways excellent Diahan\n\nAlways good webinars from Diane Southard\n\nAlways great and always learn (relearn) something new. \n\nAlways learn something new from Diahan, and her book is excellent.\n\nAlways learn tons from Diahan's presentations and shs makes it easy to understand.\n\nAlways makes it look easy!\n\nalways the best information and explanation. THANK YOU\n\nAnother good webinar what is worth watching at least once more!\n\nAnother great webinar by Diahan! She always makes the topic easy to follow and understand.\n\nAnother great webinar. Thank you.\n\nanother home run!\n\nAnother superb webinar by Diahan, just as I expected.\n\nAs always, Diahan explains so that a layman can understand difficult concepts. Thank you, Diahan and Legacy.\n\nAs always, FANTASTIC!!\n\nAWESOME\n\nAwesome!\n\nBrilliant, very well explained thank you\n\nClear explanations with great color graphics. Diahan was very good instructor.\n\ncould carry on all Diahan's excellent explanation, I do not feel that I could explore this on my own.