April 18, 2024 at 7:00 pm ET – sponsored by the Genetic Genealogy Special Interest Group

This presentation will provide ten tips and a method to organize your Genetic Genealogy DNA research using the ‘DNA Research Binder’. 

By working your way through the tips and the process of creating your own DNA Research Binder, you will be more organized, you will also reduce time and effort in future analysis, also have a better understanding of your Family history research and your DNA results.  

There will be one Case study to show how the system works and introduce the ‘The Ancestor Assessment Chart’ which was created to help assign your DNA Matches results to your ancestors.

Level – All Levels

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Shirley Monkhouse

Since a family reunion in 1966, Shirley has been interested in learning about all her Irish ancestors.  She grew up listening to her father explaining family pedigrees to visitors in the farmhouse built by her Great-Grandfather near Carp Ontario, located within 50 km of all her pioneer ancestors’ farms in the Ottawa Valley. All 32 of her 3rd Great Grandparents were “Born in Ireland”.  Shirley took her first DNA test in 2015, manages DNA kits for others, and is an Administer for two Surname Projects at FamilyTreeDNA: Rothwell & Rathwell and McCurdy. Shirley has taken week-long courses: 2016 Institute of Genealogy & Historical Research (I.G.H.R.) ‘Genetic Genealogy Tools & Techniques’ with Debbie Parker Wayne, Cece Moore, and Blaine T. Bettinger and in 2019 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (S.L.I.G.) ‘A Practical Approach Establishing Genealogical Proof with DNA’.  Shirley has been working on extending her Family lines using Genetic Genealogy (DNA) and traveling to Ireland to do research, visit homelands and cousins. While trying to sort DNA Matches and understand their relationships, Shirley created an Organization system called the ‘DNA Research Binder’, and then later created the ‘Ancestor Assessment Chart’ to help assign Matches DNA segments to direct line Ancestors.

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