Reconstructing the Murphy Family Using DNA & Documentary Evidence

Comments (3)

1. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   This webinar was very informative and practically useful. I am a beginner, and it really helps to see how professionals go about doing their genealogy research.\n\nThis webinar was very informative. Excelllent !\n\nUnfortunately I don't know enough yet about DNA to have gotten all I could out of the webinar. Glad to find a way to make charts and know about X dna regard female. \n\nVery clear presenter.\n\nvery good\n\nvery good!\n\nVery helpful\n\nVery helpful\n\nVery helpful and Melissa is a great presenter. I am learning about DNA testing bit by bit and she did a great job explaining.\n\nVery helpful to follow someone else's logic through a research process. Loved this webinar!\n\nVery helpful. A request for future webinars would be a "how-to" cite those genealogy sources. I know there are books that provide the standard, but it helps to hear and see that process in action. Thanks so much!\n\nVery helpful. Great logical analysis.\n\nVery impressed with the thoroughness of this project. \n\nVery impressed with this presentation, clear and systematic from point to point\n\nVery informative, well thought and well presented. Melissa has a tendency to speak at break speed but at the same level.\n\nVery informative. I liked following her thought process.\n\nVERY INFORMATIVE. THANK YOU\n\nVery insightful with a lot of helpful tips! Great case study!\n\nVery instructive. I have been working on a case with similar indirect evidence, but not enough documentary evidence, I thought that DNA might be the way to figure it out. This webinar gave me a good suggestion on how to develop a methodology that would stand up. Thanks!\n\nVery interesting \n\nVery interesting and jam packed. She's improved a lot in the few years I've been attending her seminars.\n\nVery interesting to tie the documentary and the DNA evidence together. \n\nVery interesting, easy to understand and useful as I attempt some similar research.\n\nVery logical, practical, and easy to follow \n\nVery nice demonstration of genealogical analysis.\n\nVery organized and detailed presentation\n\nVery thorough and excellent for learning about using DNA as proof and following genealogical standards\n\nvery thorough research and I am sure the answers did not come easily or all at once.\n\nVery though discussion on how to search and prove your questions\n\nVery well done. Several good ideas to follow up on\n\nVery well explained.\n\nVery well presented. Clear and easy to follow\n\nVery, Very helpful to me regarding proof and using DNA. Thank you\n\nWell done\n\nWell done!\n\nWell done, very clear, linear.\n\nwell explained- thank you\n\nWell organized, well presented, well done all around. One of the best case study presentations I've seen. \n\nWell thought out and helpful\n\nWonderful and thorough presentation by Melissa. Compelling methodology and inspiring case study. I'm excited to apply these teachings towards my research!\n\nWonderful webinar which I’ll replay again and again. \n\nWonderful! Melissa's case study was a great example of how to use indirect and DNA evidence.

   Reply

   
2. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   I feel I’ve learned more from this webinar than I have from any of the others. It just all made sense to me in the way she explained it.\n\nI learned a lot. Thanks.\n\nI like the combination of regular research and DNA together.\n\nI liked learning that indirect sources can be used to prove research\n\nI love a good case study - inspiring me to work on some of my more challenging ancestors. \n\nI particularly enjoyed her explanation and examples of what constitutes reasonably exhaustive research. To me, the "Is this enough?" is one of the hardest questions to answer, and she did a really good job of demonstrating the level of evidence that is required to meet that test.\n\nindepth and well desscribed\n\nInteresting analysis\n\ninteresting process\n\nInteresting research: webinar is clear and informative. Now I want LucidChart...\n\nIt was so interesting to hear the step and thoughts behind her research plan\n\nLots of great information shared! \n\nLots of information\n\nLots of research hours went into this presentation. Thank you!\n\nlove case studies - that was presented very clearly\n\nLove seeing a model of someone else's research that guides us in possible research plans and structures! Melissa presented very clearly and was well-spoken - easy to listen to - made complex ideas more understandable.\n\nLove these case study methodology webnars. I learned a lot. Thank you so much for presenting them to us.\n\nMelissa always does such a super job.\n\nMelissa did a great job of clearly explaining her methodology and reasoning and the importance of documentary evidence supported by DNA evidence. It was presented very well.\n\nMelissa did an excellent job! Thank you!\n\nMelissa is always a wonderful presenter.\n\nMelissa is an excellent presenter. Very personable and clear. \n\nMelissa is wonderful at explaining evidence and DNA. I always feel inspired after learning to her.\n\nMelissa Johnson always delivers a high quality presentation - so knowledgeable!\n\nMelissa Johnson was excellent!\n\nMelissa provides a very good presentation. She explained using DNA in a clear manner which makes it easy to understand.\n\nMelissa's presentation was very well put together - I know she had a lot to cover in her hour, but it would have been better if she slowed down and took a breath. Fascinating presentation.\n\nNicely done, Melissa.\n\nOne of the most helpful webinars ever. Well done.\n\nOutstanding! \n\nquite comprehensive. easy to understand considering I'm not anywhere close to her level of expertise. It does make me wonder what drives someone to be so precise that they would spend hundreds of dollars to have others tested. \n\nReally outstanding!\n\nReally terrific seminar. Very clear and helpful.\n\nReally top notch research done by her and was impressed. I also like having the DNA being brought into the mix as we are all trying to up our DNA game. \n\nSimilar to a case study that I've been working on, but from family from Poland, not England, and they immigrated a bit later.\n\nSo easy to follow her research. This was very helpful as I could see how to apply it to my personal research. (Also I have a brickwall family in Newark!)\n\nSo much great information about how to go about attempting to confirm relatives. Thank you!\n\nSo relevant, as I am currently enrolled in the Boston University Certificate in Genealogical Research course!\n\nSuch an interesting case study & so well explained that even I could understand!\n\nThank you very much. Presentation was well done and explained. \n\nThank you! Most informative, interesting and helpful. : )\n\nThank you! This was very exciting, as it affirmed to me that I'm on the right track, research-wise. Seeking out and poring over evidence from a myriad of angles is the best way to go in order to affirm all the correct relationships, but the best benefit of all is that it helps paint such a vivid picture of the lives of one's ancestors! Thank you for such an educational and informative webinar!\n\nThe ability to match the documentary evidence with DNA results. Well done.\n\nThe presentation was very clear and logical. Excellent!\n\nThe speaker was very knowledgeable and conveyed what she had learned very well. Enjoyed how she explained her learning process from when she was a younger genealogist to now.\n\nThis was a great webinar. Thanks so much Melissa.

   Reply

   
3. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   A clear, concise background to her research question that was easy to follow. Great slides! Explanations of research easy to understand, and the results explained neatly. \n\nA great webinar that clearly shows how indirect evidence can prove relationships. Thank you!\n\nA very interesting and insightful case study involving both documentary and DNA evidence.\n\nA well presented webinar.\n\nAn excellent presenter and great organization of material presented. The lecture offered a good balance between tradition genealogical research and introduction to how DNA can be beneficial. \n\nAnother wonderful webinar!\n\nBrilliant webinar with some great pointers as to how we can move forward with our own researches.\n\nComplex information presented in an understandable fashion. Indirect evidence is always a challenge but it was well presented in the case study.\ndemonstrated very useful tools\n\nEncouraging to see how extensive the DNA research was across multiple lines. Also encouraged to see that birth records were not found for some known children as I have the same problem in Scottish records.\n\nEnjoyed the case study on the Murphy family and what evidence that was used.\n\nExcellent Case study - Syllabus great - would be improved by providing a small family tree of the core research subjects in syllabus\n\nExcellent case study!\n\nExcellent examples; good case study!\n\nExcellent information!\n\nExcellent job!\n\nExcellent organization and presentation of a case study.\n\nExcellent presenter, Melissa did a great job of showing us how she researched her question. Very clear and direct.\n\nExcellent speaker and excellent case study.\n\nExcellent teaching webinar. Although I've done similar research, I found the presentation very helpful in providing guidance about how to structure a case study/proof argument that meets the GPS but also takes into consideration an audience (my family) of non-genealogists to whom many of the principles and concepts are new or unfamiliar.\n\nExcellent webinar Melissa!\n\nExcellent webinar. Very informative. \n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent! Very clear, well organized, and documented. \n\nEXCELLENT!!!\n\nExcellent, easy to understand presentation!\n\nExtremely informative and thorough!\n\nFun to follow along with the research. I did have a bit of trouble keeping my place, and was wishing for more mini trees as they were being constructed. But thank you and I hope to attend more in the future. \n\nGave me some usable ideas for research. \n\nGood one but I'm going to have to listen to the recording as I had to take a call half way through!\n\nGood to see someone do such a thorough research job. Inspiring. Adding the DNA makes learning all about DNA....seeing the big picture. \n\nGreat\n\ngreat case study\n\nGreat Case Study showcasing indirect evidence! Thanks Melissa!!!\n\nGreat example of a case study and very clearly presented!\n\nGreat methodology and clearly explained.\n\nGreat presentation\n\nGreat presenter. Clear presentation.\n\nGreat seminar. I really enjoyed it and would listen to it again if it was available. I would love to hear more, possibly another session, on how the DNA analysis was conducted.\n\nGreat teaching tool. I picked up some helpful research tips.\n\nGreat tie in of all of the direct and indirect evidence. Very logical and easy to follow.\n\nGreat to see all the methodology I'm learning being applied\n\nGreat use of DNA to supplement documentary evidence.\n\nGreat Webinar\n\nGreat webinar very informative, \n\nGreat webinar, very easy to follow her through the indirect evidence. Will have to go explore BCG webinars where DNA plays a bigger role in the analysis. Thanks.\n\nGreat webinar. So helpful to learn how experts work through this. Helps me to understand the process so that I can tackle my own case.\n\nGreat work locating these records to tie this family together.\n\nI absolutely love hearing case study webinars. Melissa Johnson did a great job of covering all the bases and explaining why we should never just "assume" something fits into the family without thoroughly researching. I like these methodology programs. \n\nI agree with many others, this was an excellent presentation about combining Traditional research and DNA in following GPS and the Research Question quest !\n\nI always love to learn from Melissa Johnson.\n\nI enjoy case studies\n\nI enjoyed listening to another Jersey girl.\n\nI enjoyed this case study. The presentation slides were very clear and nicely laid out.

   Reply