The YDNA Test Should Be Your Favorite

Diahan Southard
Aug 28, 2018
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About this webinar

The Y chromosome DNA, with its direct paternal line inheritance pattern, is a powerful tool for any genealogist, male or female, seeking to extend or verify a genealogical line. This lecture will cover basic and intermediate principles of using YDNA verify and extend your pedigree chart.

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About 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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  1. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    7 years ago

    Glad for information on the Y DNA haven’t seen much on how to use results until now .\n\nGood explanations. I still need to work with mine more to understand the data.\n\nGood info clearly explained and demonstrated\n\ngreat\n\nGreat explanation of the Y-DNA test and how to interpret results!\n\nGreat for what I heard. I will watch later. had to leave unexpectedly.\n\ngreat info on the ydna..cleared some things up for me\n\ngreat pace and info\n\nGreat presentation by Diahan, as always! It is always good to hear more on DNA to help me understand it. Thank you! :)\n\nGreat Seminar. I learned so much. Thought I knew a lot about Y-DNA.\n\nGreat visual explanations\n\nGreat webinar! I don't have anyone that I can test, well a half sibling that won't stay in touch. I hope this info will help my adopted brother. Have purchased tests and books for him. I am having one son tested for husband's line, and hope to get my other sons tested. Thanks\n\nGreat webinar. May have to contact her for advice on my situation.\n\nHer illustrations made understanding YDNA so much easier. Great job.\n\nI always enjoy her and learn a great deal.\n\nI have a better understanding of the YDNA thanks so much to her visuals!\n\nI have so much to learn! Thank you for the introduction and information. \n\nI like the spited sock idea\n\nI love Diahan's webinars and I really love hearing her in person. Awesome program.\n\nI only caught the last 15 minutes of Dihane's presentation and the Q&A session, but I cannot wait to go back and watch/listen to the entire thing. Her enthusiasm has reignited my interest in my YDNA test results. \n\nI will have to play this several times to really understand but nonetheless it was a GREAT webinar\n\nI'm trying to understand DNA and I appreciate the way it was presented in this webinar.\n\nInformative and easy to understand. I learned a lot and will still benefit from re-watching the webinar again. Thank you!\n\nInformative and interesting webinar. Will have to review it again to ensure I can keep what I learned. Thank you!\n\nInteresting and very helpful. Thanks!\n\nIt is helpful to learn to navigate the results in more detail. \n\nIt's finally starting to sink in\n\nIt's great to listen to Diahan's explanations. She makes a very complex subject seem a lot simpler. It resolved a lot of my questions.\n\nLove her examples.\n\nLoved Diahan's energy, enthusiasm, visuals and knowledge - thanks for sharing!\n\nMuch clearer and easier to understand than others I have seen,\n\nNo doubt the best instructor I've had to date. thank you so much.\n\nNow have my Christmas present to myself picked out. Great Job\n\nOne of best "explainers" I have ever listened to! Great webinar, it speaks to my way of learning.\n\nOutstanding presentation from Diahan as always, really enjoyed it.\n\nOutstanding!\n\nPacked with wonderful information and very well presented!!! Great job!!! Loved it!!!\n\nReally explained Y DNA so I understand much better\n\nshe explained everything well\n\nShe helped!\n\nShe is always so detailed! Excellent!\n\nShe is good at explaining for the person who knows nothing about dna. Thank you. I wish I could've listened to the end.\n\nShe is remarkable - love her presentation style!\n\nShe is so very good! Explains DNA really well! Need to watch again!\n\nShe is very knowledgeable and informative about DNA. Very good\n\nShe was VERY good! I am sure I do not understand alot of it but it really applies to my genealogy! I did my DNA on both Ancestry and MyHeritage and I am connected with people I know are my relatives but I can not figure out how,\n\nSuper\n\nSuper easy to understand. Broadened my knowledge of YDNA by 100%. Thanks.\n\nTerrific. Learned a lot. Have six different family tests. Hope I can find some ancestors. Thanks.\n\nThank you, Diahan!! Your slides are so exciting, it's easy to pay attention. I'm finding this DNA "stuff" VERY challenging and you REALLY helped. Great afternoon. Thank you, Geoff.

  2. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    7 years ago

    A lot to absorb but very well done. Will be watching again.\n\nA very knowledgeable speaker who explains in terms everyone can understand. Will watch the webinar again for additional hints. Great webinar!!\n\nAbsolutely superb!\n\nAlways enjoy Diahan's webinars. Need a money tree to have my husband's YDNA test done.\n\nAlways learn new information and very useful with Diahan Southard's talks! Thank you!\n\nAlways learn so much from Diahan Southard webinars!\n\nAmazing amount of information! Didn't find what I was looking for but will watch repeat in case I missed something! (I am female, adopted, no known father or paternal line - found my mother & half siblings but no one knew about me before mother died!). Glad I attended, and thank you. \n\nAmazing webinar! Diahan shares her DNA knowledge in such a way that makes it easy to understand and apply.\n\nAn excellent presentation, learnt a lot. Thank you Diane\n\nAs always, GREAT!\n\nAWESOME! Diahan’s talks are always so user friendly. She has a gift to make complex concepts easy to understand. This webinar helped me to understand Y-DNA realistically without intimidation. I appreciate that she lists the steps in group projects. I’ll need to rewind and spend more time on specific concepts especially the last section. So glad I am an annual member. Thanks to all!\n\nBest presenter on DNA topics I have heard.\n\nBest webinar I ever took. Thank you!\n\nBest Y DNA lecture I have heard!!\n\nCan't wait to rewatch so much info\n\nClear presentation, lots of energy, not too technical\n\nClear, concise . . . even so I want to listen again! Thanks.\n\nComplicated subject, excellent presenter!! I've already made a list of 'homework' to do this week on the few DNA tests I have managed to pay for so far. Cheers to you all for supporting the webinars - Best in the genealogy world.\n\nConfusing as all get out, but it is hard to argue how valuable this sort of data is. I am motivated now to do further DNA testing as a result Diahan's webinar, today.\n\nDefinitely one of the best webinars I've listened to and one that will need to be revisited more than once to pick up bits and pieces missed the first time through.\n\nDiahan always brings something that I need to understand better, even if I have heard the topic before. She is one of the best!!!!\n\nDiahan is a super presenter...very upbeat and knowledgeable and supremely dynamic! Thank you!\n\nDiahan is the best at making a complicated topic more understandable for the DNA lay person. Her graphics are wonderful!\n\nDiahan's brain is chock full of DNA knowledge which she can share in such an easy learning style. She has an amazing ability to know how people need to hear and 'see' details, using analogies, images, and boundless enthusiasm. \n\nDiane is such a good speaker.\n\neasy to follow her\n\nEasy to understand and follow along on the FtDNA website.\n\nexcellent\n\nexcellent\n\nExcellent\n\nExcellent information - thank you\n\nExcellent information explained in visual context that made it easy for me to understand. This webinair will help me further expand the search for my elusive paternal line. The best thing is I can visit the Legacy website and watch this and other informational webinairs to help increase my knowledge\n\nexcellent material to be watched again\n\nExcellent presentation and information. Thank you!\n\nExcellent presentation. Diane makes it sound logical.\n\nExcellent webinar\n\nExcellent webinar !\n\nEXCELLENT WEBINAR!!!!!!!!!! So much to learn! Diahan is a DNA rock star!!!!!!! Thank you very much.\n\nExcellent webinar, though I will need to watch it again to make sure I understand clearly some of the concepts. But it really advanced my understanding of how to use YDNA.\n\nExcellent webinar. Diahan explained everything so clearly\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent! Thank you.\n\nexcellent! yay!\n\nExcellent, Excellent, Excellent - Would like to meet her someday and attend a live seminar.\n\nExcellent, wonderful presentation\n\nExplanation of the different markers, values, and relation to potential matches was very good.\n\nFabulous! I feel so much better about the DNA stuff - hadn't ever understood it before - now I am getting it!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!\n\nfound it interesting\n\ngave me a better understanding of Y-DNA