Your DNA questions answered live with Diahan

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1. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   She explains everything well and she has a great voice\n\nShe is fantastic!\n\nShe is so great. I love how she uses examples that we all understand to relate to DNA. Especially when she uses personal tidbits.\n\nShe is so very good at explaining complicated things understandably. What a gift!!\n\nShe is the best!\n\nShe is wonderful! Explanations are on a level we all can understand. Love the examples of the predictability of ethnicity with the "weather" predictability. Helped me understand why the companies differ. \n\nShe is wonderful! Really has the gift of explaining concepts so that they are easy to understand\n\nshe's a great speaker\n\nSo helpful, Diahan has a way of explaining things with graphics that make it much easier to understand. Great presentation-Thanks!\n\nSo helpful. You explain concepts so clearly. Thanks\n\nSo much information in such a short time. I learn more every time I hear her speak! I did really like the weather and math examples to correlate! Can't wait to look up my ethnicity range percentages again.\n\nSo much to learn and Diahan really explains it so anyone can understand!\n\nStill learning about DNA............. Keep up the good work!\n\nstill learning lots!!\n\nStill learning one step at a time.\n\nThank you\n\nThank you very much! Diahan gives great explanations!\n\nThank you. Very interesting and helpful!\n\nThanks so much for the opportunity to submit DNA questions and have them answered by Diahan, who not only knows her material extremely well but also knows how to explain it clearly!\n\nThanks!!\n\nThere are so many directions to go with DNA research and as always Diahan is a phenomenal guide. Thanks All\n\nUnderstanding DNA can be confusing. These webinars are so helpful. Thanks \n\nUnderstanding the cm's and strands is still confusing to me. I am going to send Diahan a text to get more insight. Overall, she is a great teaching and I enjoyed listening to today's webinar. Thanks!\n\nVery clear answers. Much appreciated.\n\nVery good - will go back and listen again as I have so much to learn.\n\nVery good as usual\n\nVery good information. She talked so fast it was hard to get everything down.\n\nvery gppd explanations\n\nVery hard to keep up with technical stuff, but one tries.\n\nVery Helpful !\n\nVery helpful and explained clearly and well. She is the best!\n\nvery helpful explanations\n\nVery helpful pointers +the insight to the way the various sites process the results\n\nVery helpful. I could listen to it all over and catch things I missed!\n\nVery informative\n\nVery informative webinar!\n\nVery informative, as always. Love Diahan Southard!\n\nVery informative. There is to learn. Make me want to learn more and do more about genealogy and genetic genealogy.\n\nVery informative. Well planned, logical. \n\nVery interesting, but often a bit over my head (for now).\n\nVery interesting, pace was a bit fast but i guess it is the only way to cover all the material. Thank you!\n\nVery interesting.... think I learned quite a bit.\n\nWe need a 10 button for Diahan - she is a ten\n\nWebinars through Legacy is the best investment I've ever made to help me learn. Thank you. Diahan is a great explainer of DNA.\n\nWell presented. I learned about some features in MyHeritage and FTDNA that I didn't know before. Many thanks.\n\nwow so much info appreciate her knowledge and love her enthusiasm\n\nwow wow great\n\nYou used some very effective examples to make your ideas much more understandable. Thank you.

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2. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   I liked he explanations ie to the weather. That I understood. SO good to hear an entire upbeat presentation.\n\nI liked the half 1cousin example\n\nI love these DNA Questions and Answers! So helpful, I always learn so much. Thank you, thankyou!\n\nI love these Q&A webinars by Diahan! Great information that is well presented and explained! More, please!!!! Thanks!\n\nI loved the timber analogy. It helped to understand the concept much better. I'm still confused about some things so will need to study it a little more. \n\nI need to learn all I can so this was good. I need to learn how to interpet the numbers that you get from FTDNA on the big Y test. It shows numbers and locations and if anyone with the same numbers match you as far as if you are decended from the same person. I need to learn much more about this. Thank you\n\nI really appreciated the explanation about Timber and the 1000 times. It explains a lot. Many thanks to Diahan - I always love listening to her.\n\nI signed in late but since I am a member, I can listen to the entire presentation. Thanks to Diahan for her answering our questions.\n\nI started late and had to take a couple of calls. Hoping to watch it again soonest. Thanks.\n\nI teach classes on DNA and appreciate her in-depth topics such as dealing with what I call orphan clusters --- shared match groups that have a common ancestor that is not in your family tree.\n\nI was late attending, another tasks but what heard was very informative. Thanks for the reminders\n\nI will have to review this again the presentation was wonderful . I'm fairly new to DNA. Great job Diahan thanks\n\nI'm a repeat participant in Diahan's webinars, and I always learn something new or a new angle that I can apply to my work with genetic genealogy! Through her webinars and her book, Diahan has become my mentor!\n\nI'm sorry to have missed part of it. Dianne does such a good job of explaining DNA on a level that everyone can understand. Thank you!\n\nInformative, but I have no living relatives. Hence cant go any further.\n\nIt seems that I always listen to a first class presenter when I listen to one of your webinars. I did not realise that I was able to pick out the best of the best so consistently.\n\nIt was wonderful. So helpful!!! love it. Thank you. \n\nKeep picking up more things with each DNA webinar\n\nlearned TONS! love it!\n\nLike many others, I learn something(s) new every time I listen to Diahan. Thank you for sharing your time with us.\n\nLike you both said, each time attending a DNA workshop one learns more. Thank you so much for this opportunity. Think I will become a member. I have gained so much from watching these webinars which have been hosted by Marion County History and Genealogy group in Indy for us for quite awhile (back when we met in person ""sans masks."" Hope some of my friends also attended, I emailed them the info. on this amazing seminar.\n\nLoads of information to resolve ancestor roadblocks\n\nLots of information covered, all very joyously and professionally presented!\n\nLots of information. Did go very fast but included a lot. \n\nlots of new approaches were put forth\n\nlots of new info will have to watch again but love Diahan\n\nLove Diahan Southard!\n\nLove Diahan Southard, I would listen to her anyday\n\nLOVE Diahan!\n\nLove Diahans enthusiasm ad I learn so much.\n\nLove the illustrations, help me to understand better\n\nLove the way it was explained. Makes it easier to understand\n\nLove these webinars. Always learn something new and new techniques. Was very well explained! \n\nMore webinars with Diane\n\nMy favorite person to hear from!. I learn something each time from her.\n\nNew ways to make sense of DNA\n\nNice examples to help illustrate concepts.\n\nNice explanations for DNA matches! Thank you.\n\nNobody explains DNA more clearly, in ways we can all understand! More Diahan, please.\n\nOutstanding presentation! I love the analogies used to simplify concepts. Looking forward to viewing her archives.\n\nOutstanding!\n\nShe always does a fantastic job. Keep bringing her back!\n\nShe always makes it understandable!

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3. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   Diahan is just awesome in explaining DNA. It is not often someone so smart at a complicated subject can explain it to others. She is very gifted. A great teacher. Thanks for having her back.\n\nDiahan is so good!!!\n\nDiahan is the BEST!\n\nDiahan is the best.\n\nDiahan is wonderful! I love the way she makes things clear for non-scientists. My favorite today was the 12 year old girl analogy. I have raised 2 daughters and my granddaughters are 13 and 15! Diahan you are in my prayers!\n\nDiahan was excellent as usual. She explains things so well! I love all of the examples that she gives to illustrate the points that she is making.\n\nDiahann does an excellent job with explaining DNA. I am beginning to understand DNA more and more with her webinars. \n\nDiahann has a great way of presenting a very complex and confusing topic in easy to understand illustrations and words.\n\nDiahan's analogies are very helpful in explaining DNA concepts. I also like the speed that she moves through the material.\n\nDiane is always a font of knowledge!\n\nDianne is so good!\n\nDihan is the best speaker. She takes complex info and boils it down into simple terms and desciptions with a powerful delivery. I love learning from her. \n\nEach webinar tops the last. I learn something new every time I hear Diahne speak. \n\nEnjoyed the presentation even though DNA is somewhat mind boggling, but I'll keep listening, reading and working at it. Thank you. : )\n\nEvery time I attend one of your webinars I pickup more tools to investigate. Thanks for your time today.\n\nExcellent \n\nExcellent !!\n\nExcellent , as usual. \n\nExcellent as usual\n\nExcellent as usual for Diahan. She's one of the best instructors in imparting knowledge in an entertaining as well as enlightening manner.\n\nExcellent as usual! Love Diahann!\n\nExcellent as usual.\n\nExcellent content! Diahan is fantastic!\n\nExcellent examples in presentation!\n\nExcellent presentation. Loved the charts\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent! Thank you very much!\n\nExcellent! Well-organized, clear, very informative. Great reminders of things to do, as always. Thanks!\n\nExcellent!!!!\n\nExcellent, as always! Thanks!\n\nExcellent, as usual!!!\n\nFantastic!!! I would rate it higher than 5 if allowed. Diahan is very good at explaining concepts and I love her analogies (weather forecast, 12 year old girls, etc.).\n\nFantastic_ I always learn so much from Diahan's presentations. Please come back for some more in-depth presentations.\n\nGreat analogies and also very good info on delving into the background on the Shared cM Project, as well as the Ancestry ethnicity estimates.\n\nGreat as always\n\nGreat explanations today!\n\nGreat help!\n\nGreat info!\n\nGreat information once again from Diahan Southard!!\n\nGreat presentation.\n\nGreat session. Diahan is so clear and has beautiful straightforward illustrations and examples. \n\nGreat session. Got answers to questions I didn't know that I had! :-D\n\nGreat to get some answers about Ancestry's new ethnicity calculations. My first look at mine had me saying "I don't think so". \n\nGreat webinar on answering DNA questions.\n\nGreat webinar.\n\nGreat!!\n\nGreat, as always! Thank you!!!\n\nHave watch a second maybe third time because we covered so many different concepts.\n\nHer use of the visual charts to explain makes her presentations very understandable. She is an excellent communicator.\n\nI always learn new tips and tricks from Diahann's webinars!\n\nI always learn so much with Diahan Southard. Now to try to apply it!! Thanks for putting on these informative webinars.\n\nI gained more clarity on using DNA to make sure I am looking at the correct matches and why some matches are there and may not necessarily be by Genetic match. \n\nI have got to get to watching more of the DNA webinars! I am falling behind. I have some catching up to do, that is for sure. I am especially interested in the other Q & A sessions. Good job, today!!!!

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4. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   ++++ OUTSTANDING. Don't think there is any better person to explain DNA \n\nA little bit too advanced for me.\n\nA real winner-Spectacular and so easy to understand. \n\nAgain, Diahan explains complicated processes so well with her analogies. A couple new words or concepts for me today. I'd love to see how she takes the theory to a spreadsheet/chart to analyze. I've seen various methods and processes. A step by step from each site would be great. I know the data can be downloaded, but opening it up and setting up the spreadsheet (the decisions) is where I start to get muddled. Then adding data from other sites. \n\nAlways a wonderful webinar when Diahan presents; very clear and the graphics help. Thank you.\n\nAlways educational and demystifying!\n\nAlways enjoy Diahan and how she makes DNA more understandable and usable in family research. \n\nAlways excellent! I keep learning new things long after I thought I knew it all, lol...\n\nAlways excellent!!\n\nAlways excellent. I learn something new from Diahan every time!\n\nAlways great info from this presenter!\n\nAlways great to hear Diahan!\n\nAlways great!!\n\nalways informative. She answers questions I had not even thought of asking! thank you\n\nAlways learn something from Diahan!\n\nalways learn something new about DNA with Diahan\n\nAlways tops!\n\nalways well explained with examples. Thanks again.\n\nAmazing information. Diahan is so good at giving information in such an understandable manner!\n\nAn amazing ability to explain complicated topics simply. I'd normally nod off in a webinar like this. Not with Diahan!\n\nAs always I learn so much from her lectures/webinars. Thank you so much.\n\nAs always, Diahan Southard imparts a large amount of information in a short time but makes it understandable. Her enthusiasm for this subject is evident, and she's a wonderful presenter.\n\nAs always, I learned something new and will come back to rewatch so I can put into practice different aspects of this webinar. Thank you Diane.\n\nAs always, informative & motivating!\n\nAs usual Diahan gave a great presentation with great diagrams. I will be updating my personal genealogy to my 2 DNA sites soon. Also need to practice the things she show us how to.\n\nas usual Diahan is great!\n\nawesome\n\nAwesome as always. Looking forward to the webinar in December.\n\nAWESOME as Diahan always is!!! I have been fortunate to attend Diahan’s live presentations and have watched many webinars (beginning in 2016 - I think) with Diahan; but, I always learn something new. I continue to be in awe of her kindness in teaching skills. She encourages and motivates novices through experts with such style and grace. Her knowledge base is phenomenal! Thank you to all for making this happen!\n\nAWESOME she explains DNA is a non science way so helpful!!\n\nawesome talk Diahan, useful explanations and very entertaining. thanks Geoff for organising\n\nAwesome! I try never to miss Dian's presentations because I learn so much.\n\nAwesome!! So much good information and she makes it easier to understand\n\nBrilliant webinar which has answered some of my DNA question.\n\nCan't wait till December for her next webinar\n\nCertainly, Ms. Southard should be rated well beyond a "5" !!! Both her depth of knowledge AND her ability to synthesize is beyond words. Simply stated :: she is FANTASTIC.\n\nDefinitely got new tools to work with. Hope I can figure how to actually get results with them.\n\nDiahan always explains things in a way that is easily understood and then is easy to apply to my own work. \n\nDiahan always presents very well.\n\nDiahan always speaks so clearly, has great screens, and is so well organized. I always learn a great deal.\n\nDiahan always teaches a top notch webinar! \n\nDiahan can explain DNA better than anyone else I've listened to. I love her examples and analogies!\n\nDiahan covered such a wide variety of DNA topics, will need to watch the recording to grasp some concepts.\n\nDiahan explains difficult concepts so well! Thank you!\n\nDiahan explains everything so clearly! Thanks.\n\nDiahan gave me more information to look at my percentages clearer. She has also opened up more questions with my genealogy.\n\nDiahan is always enjoyable to listen to and she knows her stuff!\n\nDiahan is ALWAYS excellent!\n\nDiahan is always terrific! Another great webinar!\n\nDiahan is an excellent educator. she knows how to explain a subject in an instructive step-by-step manner, and leads listeners along an understandable path of learning. I very much appreciate her teaching ability, as well as her knowledge. \n\nDiahan is inspirational

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