Content
Welcome
2m 44s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 8s
Introduction
5m 35s
Leeds Method
8m 23s
Next Steps
13m 40s
New Research Objective
30m 17s
Onomastic Evidence
8m 23s
Announcements / prizes
4m 14s
Questions / answers
13m 19s
About this webinar
Sometimes our ancestors seem to have appeared out of nowhere. That was the case with William Emmitt Hunter whose life before his 1910 Oklahoma marriage was basically unknown. One record—his application for a Social Security account number—provided self-reported information about his birth in North Carolina and his parents' names. But his alleged parents could not be found. Without DNA, this case would not have been solved. But DNA revealed that William was born as a Beddingfield, not a Hunter. Additional research identified his name at birth and traced him through multiple marriages, divorces, another alias, and indicated the possible reason why he changed his name and left behind his family and friends to start a new life in Oklahoma.
About the speaker
Dana Leeds started researching her family tree in 1998. She bought her first DNA kit in 2016 and solved her first unknown parentage case in early 2018. While working on another case that year, she cre...
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Comments (187)
You need to read about my Grandpa, he gad 5 wives, 6 kids, so far, and 3 aliases, went awol, so his 1st wife thought he was dead, and carried on marrying 4 maybe 5 more wives..I found my cousin, we have talked, they gad no idea about anything...ge was Post Master in Ontario too...
Could W. H. Young be the wedding officiant or Justice of the Peace or town clerk, maybe?\n\nI enjoyed this webinar very much and use your Leeds method on every case that comes my way. Thank you!
Awesome research! I really learned about how important it is to pull out specific similar pieces of DNA.
5 is not high enough for the content and presentation!!
Wow! Just Wow!
Very helpful to go through a case study step-by-step!
Excellent! Thank you!
Dana’s DNA research method is perfect for visual learners! Thank you!