Content
Welcome
2m 14s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 13s
Introduction
10m 13s
Creating a chart
5m 11s
Analyzing charts
4m 3s
Overlap
6m 39s
Check your work
3m 16s
Sorting your spreadsheet
3m 11s
Adding higher matches
6m 11s
Identifying surnames
3m 24s
Case studies
18m 43s
Announcements / prizes
4m 29s
Questions / answers
12m 44s
About this webinar
When you take an autosomal DNA test, you get a list of people who share DNA with you because you share common ancestors. The Leeds Method uses Shared Matching to create colorful groups of these matches. Each group is likely related to you through one part of your family, and many people get four groups based on their four grandparent lines. This method is based on DNA, not trees, so it is also often effective in cases of unknown parentage. This presentation will help you create a Leeds Method chart, understand your results, and use that chart to learn more about your family tree.
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 (86)
Thankful I saw this video! Heard about LEEDS Method and hopeful to learn more to better understand and sort my 10s of 1000s of matches! Also hoping it will help break thru a few brick walls.\n\n2 yrs ago I watched a video about the LEEDS Method, but quickly became lost + hit a stopping point. Seeing/hearing from Dana Leeds herself has taken me further.\n\nI used Ancestry matches (166 DNA matches in 90-400 cM range). Set up a spreadsheet while watching + taking notes. I’ve watched some parts repeatedly as I built my spreadsheet. I was amazed and shocked to see the 11 clusters in the video - until I saw 13 in my work!\n\nWith 13 clusters I’m trying to better understand about consolidating clusters, so I will be rewatching the video. I’m wondering about other resources (videos, websites, etc) to understand how or whether to consolidate clusters.\n\nI need to do this with matches on the other genealogy sites but don’t want to start until I am further along with this one + have better under
Great talk and easy to follow, thank you
This was amazing! One of the most helpful webinars I've seen. It has helped me get started on finding some missing father information and organize the thousands of DNA matches! Thank you!
Great idea, I have only 11 in the 400-90 cM range, most of mine are 70 and below. So, it looks like I have work to do.
Terrific - loved the simplicity, but will still listen again.
Excellent webinar. Very clear and helpful directions. Great case studies. Really enjoyed listening to Dana.
The presentation expanded my understanding of the Leeds Method. In particular, I have a better understanding of what to do with the clusters after they have been sorted. Thank you, Dana!
This was my first webinar. She was a great presenter. I would attend another one of her webinars. Lots of information. Presented clearly and concisely.