My 20 Year Mystery – Finding family origins with Y-DNA
Shellee Morehead, PhD, CG
Content
Welcome
1m 25s
About BCG
4m 41s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 7s
Introduction
12m 57s
Case Study
23m 8s
DNA
11m 44s
Traditional Research
23m 17s
Announcements
45s
Questions / answers
8m 18s
About this webinar
Beginner genealogists often research their surname origins first, and get stuck at a certain point. The skills needed to surmount these early brick walls come in time, with study and practice, and the increasing availability of DNA and online resources. In this webinar, Shellee describes her brick wall ancestor, Samuel Morehead, of Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, and the techniques that she used to identify his parentage and place of origin. Sticky problems like this require a variety of approaches including Y-DNA analysis, the FAN club, tax, land and court records, censuses, historical analysis and mapping techniques, to name a few. She will detail the clues acquired from all of these methods as she developed an hypothesis to satisfy the Genealogical Proof Standard.
About the speaker
Shellee Morehead, PhD, CG, has a Ph.D. in evolutionary ecology from the University of Utah and is an associate professor of Biology at the New England Institute of Technology. She was certified by BCG...
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Comments (60)
It was really helpful to see the use of the skills and tools from recent webinars. Thank you.
Very interesting. Great genealogical research.
A lot of great information, very interesting to see the transformation of how Shellee's research, and loved the drawings! This showed me how much more I can do. Thank you!
I liked seeing specific steps involved in trying to solve a research problem. The Zoom In and Zoom Out reference was clever.
Very good. I really enjoyed all of the background stories.
Excellent! Very pleasant & knowledgeable speaker. I just recently had my cousins take Y-DNA tests to break down our family brick wall & her sample case study really helps me know ho to use the traditional genealogical research & the Y-DNA test results together. Really helpful!
Very well presented seminar. Excellent illustrations and good overview of the helpfulness of Y-DNA use.
I'm not sure I learned enough from the talk to make full use of the information. I plan on listening for a second time to expand my understanding of the talk.