My 20 Year Mystery – Finding family origins with Y-DNA
Shellee Morehead, PhD, CG
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About this webinar
Beginner genealogists often research their surname origins first, and get stuck at a certain point. The skills needed to surmount these early brick walls come in time, with study and practice, and the increasing availability of DNA and online resources. In this webinar, Shellee describes her brick wall ancestor, Samuel Morehead, of Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, and the techniques that she used to identify his parentage and place of origin. Sticky problems like this require a variety of approaches including Y-DNA analysis, the FAN club, tax, land and court records, censuses, historical analysis and mapping techniques, to name a few. She will detail the clues acquired from all of these methods as she developed an hypothesis to satisfy the Genealogical Proof Standard.
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Comments (60)
This webinar was very informative about research strategy starting with family lore and some facts. While I have not yet my family with Y DNA, I have been working with DNA matches and forming other peoples family trees. Watching this webinar, gives me encouragement to dig deeper for the facts for my family. Thanks to the Speaker and BCG for doing webinars.
Very well presented seminar. Excellent illustrations and good overview of the helpfulness of Y-DNA use.
I'm not sure I learned enough from the talk to make full use of the information. I plan on listening for a second time to expand my understanding of the talk.
Related to research I am doing.
Very helpful.
Excellent! Very pleasant & knowledgeable speaker. I just recently had my cousins take Y-DNA tests to break down our family brick wall & her sample case study really helps me know ho to use the traditional genealogical research & the Y-DNA test results together. Really helpful!
Nice review of records to research and good list of skills needed.
I can NOT wait to watch this again later! DNA mysteries are always so fascinating to me and I love seeing the process to work them out. Thank you!