2021 Annual Seminar – “Usage of DNA Tools to Expand Your Family Story” with Angie Bush

West Valley Genealogical Society Virtual Seminar – February 20, 2021

Usage of DNA Tools to Expand Your Family Story with Angie Bush

Angie Bush’s bio:

Angie Bush, MS is the Region 1 Director for the National Genealogical Society, and the chair of the Genetic Genealogy Committee. Her day job is as a Genetic Genealogist Researcher with Ancestry ProGenealogists in Salt Lake City.

Angie has been interested in her genealogy since she was very young. After college, she spent several years working in biotech while continuing to pursue her genealogy hobby. With the growing popularity and introduction of autosomal DNA testing in 2012, she decided to combine her two loves into one career.

Although she spends a lot of time working on recent unknown parentage cases (adoptions, unknown fathers), her favorite type of research to do involves solving decades-old “brick-walls” using a combination of traditional records and genetic evidence. She is a popular speaker and presenter and enjoys attending conferences where she can connect with others who share her passion for genealogy.

Here are the talks in this order:

• • Making DNA a Part of Your Genealogical Research
    Learn to analyze your genealogical research problems and determine if DNA testing might help you answer your questions. We will discuss the types of problems DNA testing is best suited to answer, who you should test and where you should test them.

• • DNA Doesn’t Prove Anything
    DNA testing has helped many people answer long-standing research questions, but it is not a magic bullet. DNA alone will not answer any question of kinship and identity. Learn how to correlate and analyze your DNA test results with historical data to meet the GPS and build a proof argument to answer your difficult research questions.

• • Tips and Tricks for Making the Most of Your DNA
    The amount of information provided with DNA test results can be overwhelming. Learn how to zero in on the information that is going to be most useful to you as a genealogist. We will discuss tips and tricks for analyzing and organizing the data so that it is most useful to you.

• • Tools the Pros Use
    Although the DNA testing companies are innovating and coming up with new tools to help us, there are other tried and true genealogical research tools and third-party innovators who have developed tools to help us use our DNA results. Learn about the tools the pros at AncestryProGenealogists use to help their clients find and tell their family stories with DNA.