Solving a Virginia Mystery Using DNA
Paula Williams
Content
Welcome
1m 56s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 29s
Introduction
4m 26s
Types of DNA Testing
5m 21s
Autosomal DNA
2m 29s
Sorting Matches
9m 13s
Genealogy Research
13m 20s
Which Brother?
10m 44s
Announcements / prizes
7m 20s
Questions / answers
14m 9s
About this webinar
Family lore tells a different story than the records for the paternity of a southwest Virginia great-grandfather. Learn how DNA helps solve the mystery!
About the speaker
Paula is a professional genealogist who has been researching for more than two decades in primarily southern US states and has been using DNA to solve problems for more than a decade. She has studied ...
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Comments (44)
Thank you for an excellent presentation! Re the marriage in jail, I recently ran across a newspaper article from 1914 about a couple married in jail. The bride's father had brought a charge of seduction against the groom, who was then arrested and jailed. The next morning, the bride went to the jail, and the same justice of the peace who had served the warrant performed the marriage ceremony.
Excellent presentation. Really informative.
Paula has a great grasp of what is possible with DNA
A very good case study showing the use of various types of DNA.
Very well done! Thank you for sharing that with us (and good luck with hopefully solving it completely in the future!). Definitely got me re-thinking how to approach finding the family for my own great-grandfather!
This was an excellent webinar. I especially liked that fact that Ms. Williams gave a step-by-step process for how she used multiple DNA tools along with good, old fashioned genealogy research to try to answer her research question and learned a lot of very useful information along the way, but ultimately came to the conclusion that more research is needed, so this project is a work in progress. It is important for beginner and intermediate researchers to hear, understand and appreciate this.
Excellent webinar! Very informative. I'm looking forward to re-watching it to take more notes.
Fascinating case study!