'What are the Odds?' An online tool that can help solve DNA puzzles

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1. BB

   Barbara Breidenstein

   3 years ago

   This gives me hope of being able to find who my father's mother's family was.

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2. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   Very informative and Jonny Perl is an excellent teacher.\n\nVery informative. Can't wait to get my info together to be able to use the tool.\n\nVery informative. So happy to have opportunity to view and hear Johnny Perl himself. It's an extraordinary tool, and I want to use it to the fullest, as I have two big mystery trees to solve. Thank you.\n\nVery informative. Jonny was able to explain complex ideas in a clear manner. Very excited to try out WATO.\n\nvery interesting\n\nvery interesting\n\nVery interesting and helpful! Thank you!\n\nVery interesting but not sure I understood enough to be able to use it. I will try, however.\n\nVery interesting tool. Look forward to using. Thanks for the syllabus. \n\nvery interesting!\n\nVery interesting!\n\nVery interesting, but seemingly beyond my capabilities without Johnny at my side as I do it. \n\nvery interesting. So much information, will have to watch it again!\n\nVery interesting; I'm looking forward to trying WATO!\n\nVery new subject for me, thus a bit confusing.\n\nVery useful and informative discussion about an exciting tool to expand out ability to discover relationships! Johnny is a great presenter.\n\nvery useful in clarifying how to use the tool\n\nVery very good!!\n\nVery very informative! Can't wait to try WATO.\n\nVery well done! Learned something new. \n\nVery well worth while. I am now eager to use the beta version!\n\nWell planned and presented\n\nWell presented, no glitches. \n\nWent very fast. Will have to watch again several times with ability to pause. I liked the live demo with the software the best. It was the easiest to follow.\n\nWhat A Tool Organizer (WATO)! Should be a tremendous aid.\n\nWhat a webinar! Learned loads -- especially fond of the mileage/maps and shared dna/possible relationships comparison. An "AHA" moment for sure!\n\nWhat a wonderful DNA tool to be able to use! He is very knowledgeable about DNA! Great speaker also!\n\nWonderful and now to try my luck with it and figure out this high match of 792 cm that I cant work out\n\nWonderful explanation. Can't wait to try the Beta! \n\nWonderful improvements in the WATO tool!\n\nWonderful presentation! Last week I set up a log in at DNA painter but had no clue what to do. Now I do. Will get up a Gedcom first. Thanks!\n\nWonderful to see the online demonstration. Thanks Jonny!\n\nWonderful.\n\nWonderful. He has inspired me to learn more about DNA and to continue on.\n\nWow - This is one powerful tool. BUT I can't think as fast as Jonny can talk. I'm going to have to go through the recording with my finger on the pause button.\n\nwow so much\n\nWow!\n\nWOW! Can't wait to start playing with WATO\n\nWow!!! Mind blowing webinar. WATO is an amazing tool.\n\nWow!!!!

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3. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   This was a very informative webinar. I have been putting off using WATO until this webinar. Now I am looking forward to it and am excited that I waited so I can use the new features in the beta version!\n\nThis was excellent. Informative. Clear. Well presented. I rarely have the patience to listen intently for long periods of time. This webinar was an exception. I was engaged from beginning to the very end. Kudos to you all for a great learning experience.\n\nthis was informative for all levels of users. \n\nThis was really great! I can't wait to try it!\n\nThis was the best webinar I have attended! It took all of my control not to run over to DNA Painter but at the same time I didn't want to miss a word.\n\nthis was very interesting. after searching for 20 years for my grandfather, i feel like a beginner still. i am hopeful that using WATO will help me in my search. \n\nThis Webinar covered considerable material at jet speed. It would be worthwhile to cover portions of the material in sections, each containing more detail on discussion of the alternatives with the logic for each possibility.\n\nThis webinar was just fantastic. I appreciate the wonderful handout and all the work that Jonny has done.\n\nTime just flew. This is the first time I heard Jonny speak I really got caught up in his enthusiasm. I have used WATO before working on doing my paternal matches in DNA painter ongoing. Rally looking forward to giving BETA a whirl so off I go. Much thanks to Legacy and Jonny.\n\nTo the point-no wasted time. Useful graphics and samples. \n\nVery clear and concise explanation. I have used WATO for a while and love it. I do get a bit muddled sometimes with amounts of DNA and where to put hypothesis so was great to hear and see more examples of it's use. Love the new beta but am glad the older version is still there. Will be trying it later today as have to go out now!!!\n\nThanks Jonny for you work and ongoing efforts to help us all uncover these mysteries in our trees.\n\nVery clear and informative - I should be able to use it in my husband's tree. Thanks very much!\n\nVery clear and informative. Also great to have the Syllabus for free. I look forward to using the tool with a bit more confidence!\n\nVery clear and made me want to try it out\n\nVery clear and useful.\n\nVery cool new options in the BETA version!\n\nVery encouraging for finding unknown parentages\n\nvery excited about new tool\n\nVery good but a bit over my head, I fear! I have a lot of reading and practicing to do!\n\nVery helpful indeed thank you all! I now have to see if this can cope with my specific problem which is a wonderful challenge to have. Im looking forward to beginning, but suspect I may have to wait, if there are many people trying to upload .gedcoms at the same time. Thanks again.\n\nVery helpful to get the explanation of the new beta functions.\n\nVery helpful to hear the developer explain DNAPainter. This is the second time I've attended a training and I think I can use it now!\n\nVERY helpful, but MUCH more work involved to sort out my Dad's birth father from about 18 potentials!\n\nVery informative\n\nVery informative and I hope to use DNA Painter soon!\n\nVery informative and interesting!

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4. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   Motivation to get back to tackling some DNA issues!\n\nMust watch again and then give it a try.\n\nMy husband and I have recently been using WATO to help others with their family mysteries. This webinar provided increased confidence in our ability to successfully use this tool and we look forward to the new, enhanced version with gedcoms! Thank you.\n\nNeed to learn more about DNA and use Jonny's methods.\n\nNice to know it exists, but more sophisticated than where I am currently. Still a "beginner"\n\nNow I have to go learn about DNA Painter. I've definitely heard about it, but haven't taken the time to learn about it.\n\nnow to get started with this tool\n\nonce again my head is spinning - so glad I can watch again!\n\nOutstanding!\n\nover my head again!! I'll be back\n\nReally enjoyed Jonny's presentation. I use WATO quite often and am excited to try out the new Beta version.\n\nReally interesting and can’t wait to try out the beta version. Thanks to Jonny :)\n\nReally interesting, but I will have to listen three or four more times at least to get a grip on how to make this work. Thank you!\n\nreally useful and well explained and practical\n\nSimply amazing! Thanks for all the great work!\n\nSo excited about the new features/functions of the WATO Beta!\n\nSo excited to see the beta upgrades. I'll get busy using them.\n\nSo informative and helpful! I loved the Salt lake City and Las Vegas analogy, it made things click for me about shared matches. I also loved the case studies as they helped to illustrate common challenges and how to use WATO to try to figure them out. I can't wait to try out the new beta!\n\nSo much amazing information. Can't wait to try the beta. Thanks so much to everyone involved in providing this and of course to Jonny\n\nSuper well done! Thank you.\n\nThank you Jonny Perl for a very easy to understand lecture on WATO (excited about the BETA!) and a BIG THANK YOU to Legacy Family Tree Webinars for making it possible and for making DNA Painter webinars and syllabi free to all.\n\nThank you Jonny! Always wonderful to hear your presentations and they are very clear and descriptive. \n\nThank you so much! I have always wanted to learn more about this, just couldn't grasp it. Will give it a shot now!\n\nThank you very much. I appreciated you doing an example during the Q&A. I am a visual learner and this helped me understand the process more clearly. Great presentation. Can't wait to use the tool.\n\nThank you!\n\nThank you, Jonny!\n\nThanks for providing such great information, looking forward to using the new version and figuring things out!\n\nThat was awesome! I'm hoping the beta version will help shed some more light on a problem I'm working on.\n\nthat was really good. learned lots and all being well will find ancestor\n\nThe beta version is awesome, with what little I looked at it so far. Thank you, Jonny Perl! \n\nThe how-to part of the webinar was great. Loved that Jonny announced the beta to us first!\n\nThe information is great. It was so quick that I didn't quite understand everything. I'll go back and watch the Introduction video and rewatch this one to understand it better. Thanks for all of the wonderful webinars.\n\nThe presenter did a good job of presenting a complex topic. It was a new subject for me, so I found it moving too quickly for me to follow precisely, but I will definitely look into it further.\n\nThis has inspired me to go and have a look at this tool. I had seen it on the DNAPainter website but never realized how to use it. And with so much other genealogical stuff to do, it never grabbed my attention. Today's seminar in a short period of time really showed how useful a tool it is.\n\nThis is now the best webinar!\n\nThis is second WATO presentation I've attended. It's somewhat clearer each time. I don't really have any use for it in my tree - my unknowns are much too far back. I have, however, matches with a few people looking for their parent(s) or other close relatives. It would be nice to be able to give them this information. I will take a closer look at one of these in particular.

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5. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   I have successfully been using What are the Odds for quite some time and it was great to hear Jonny's presentation and to hear about version 2! \n\nI have tried WATO and had some difficulties. Hope after this presentation I will more successful. Thank you for the webinar.\n\nI have used WATO before, but the seminar gave me new insights and enthusiasm.\n\nI have used WATO several times, and I feel reasonably confident about my understanding of its purpose and its navigation. But as predicted by Jonny at the outset of today's webinar, I experienced some very helpful "ah-ha's" as the webinar proceeded. I'm excited to return to the tool with the new features now in play. Great webinar! An enormous thank you, to you and to your team, Jonny, for the WATO tool itself, the ongoing improvements to it, and forthe great support for users with sessions like this. \n\nI haven't used WATO yet, but have been looking for ways to research a brick wall and a puzzling match. This looks very promising. Thanks!\n\nI learned a lot and will try it out. Thanks\n\nI learned quite a bit, and am looking forward to trying WATO\n\nI love the improvements to the tool and can't wait to try them. Thanks for both the case studies and live demo.\n\nI need more basic information to get to this point. It was well presented and understood. Will review this again later\n\nI need to get into DNA painter and eventually use the WATO. I will need to replay the webinar to see the details better. \n\nI need to play with this tool!\n\nI need to start on the bottom rung of DMA exploration\n\nI plan to try DNA Painter! Excellent program.\n\nI really need to try DNA painter and then listen to seminar again\n\nI think I have a better notion of how to search for the elusive great grandfather. Thank you!\n\nI think it was a thorough overview of WATO, and even though I have not used it before I have more confidence in starting to work with it. Thank you for offering it for free today.\n\nI thought Jonny was very good at explaining difficult concepts in an hour-long setting.\n\nI thought Jonny's first case study with Brian, even though an easy case study, made how WATO works easier to understand. Wonderful presentation\n\nI was looking forward to this so much. Never disappointing learning from Jonny. Love these webinars!\n\nI will have to relisten as it was complicated but I am excited go try it. \n\nI will need to watch again (maybe more)!! to fully understand.\n\nI will watch this again with the handout and then try it out.\n\nI'm just beginning to use DNA information so most of Jonny's talk was very new but it is good to know that there are other ways to connect DNA matches. Thank you.\n\nIncredible presentation! He is able to make highly technical information easy to comprehend and readily share it with the world - freely (not to mention, without cost!)\n\nInteresting concept! I can't wait to try it!! You can't have too many DNA webinars!!\n\nInteresting presentation. I am anxious to look into the WATO concept.\n\nInteresting, but a little overwhelming. Working through it on your own would probably make all the information given come into focus. Will try out DNA Painter.\n\nIt is so marvelous that people like Jonny, Leah, and Andrew have been willing to share their mathematical and analytical abilities with we genealogists to help us validate our findings. With all the sadness over the COVID flu right now, it is such a blessing to see good people doing good things for mankind! \n\nIt moved fast, but I have not used the tool yet. I'm so glad it will be available to watch several times. And thanks to Leah, Andrew and Jonny for inventing this. I have a case I've been trying to prove or disprove on my tree within 4 generations, and this will be the perfect tool!\n\nIt truly was a great webinar. I wish I had had more DNA knowledge before listening.\n\nIt was a bit overwhelming but a presentation I will watch again. I have an unknown close match that I will look forward to exploring with WATO. Thank you!\n\nIt was a bit overwhelming but I am a novice. It was good information I am sure I will find helpful eventually.\n\nIt was a fabulous webinar. Jonny does a great job presenting his information. Thanks so much for designing this incredibly useful tool and helping us understand how to use it.\n\nit was easy to follow and very helpful.

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6. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   It was explained in a way that I can understand. I can't wait to get started with the tool. Thank you.\n\nIt was great and I do have problem I wish to solve but I guess Ill have to list to it again s it was a bit over my head.\n\nIt was great and very informative. I appreciate the work they do to make the search faster and on target\n"\nit was great to keep up to date with DNA Painter and hear about the Beta version from Jonny himself.\n\nIt was great. So informative. I will go back to DNA painter with a new zest for genealogy.\n\nIt was packed with information. Hope I can remember it all. It went so quickly I will need to revisit the presentation as a video so that I can stop and start it in the places I needed more time to digest all of the information.\n\nIt was very good and well done. Thank you.\n\nIt was very helpful seeing how you input matches into WATO\n\nIt was very informational and am excited to check out the beta. I use WATO all the time. Thanks again!\n\nIt was very interesting and will probably be very helpful as I am starting to do DNA research. Jonny did a great job with a complex subject.\n\nIt went a bit fast for me but I now feel that I should be able to at least try out the tool.\n\nit went a little too fast for me to comprehend everything, but still very good\n\nIt will be interesting to see what response you receive from the 64% first timers because from my perspective having listened to Leah several times, Johnny's introduction on his website and tried several trees to find my husband's unknown maternal grandfather, the light is growing a bit brighter but I'm afraid I still have more sessions testing the trees and listening to the explanations to feel confident with what I am doing with the tool. However, I'm thrilled to have the tool available and eagerly waiti\n\nI've discovered that my DNA mystery will remain that way as it is too far back.\n\nJohnny did a really good job of showing how to use WATO.\n\nJonny explained it well. I just haven't yet found a case where I can use it to sort out matches, but I'm sure I will when I explore them more deeply.\n\nJonny is always interesting. He takes a complicated subject and uses great analogies to help make the information understandable. His tools are terrific, too!\n\nJonny is an excellent presenter.\n\nJonny is an excellent speaker.\n\nJonny is an inspiration, thanks so much\n\nJonny is very clear and logical in his explanations. It makes it easy to go to the site and work with it.\n\nJonny is very impressive and the moderator was helpful. Information was challenging.\n\nJonny Perl’s DNA Painter tools are brilliantly engineered by him and the colleagues he works with. It’s great to hear him, personally, talking about and explaining them to us. His passion for not only his own genealogy but helping others to achieve their genealogy goals just shines through.\n\nJonny was excellent as usual. I look forward to viewing the webinar again to see if I'm setting up my mystery top match correctly as well as using the syllabus. He's a treasure as is Legacy. \n\nJonny's webinars are excellent - especially liked his analogy about finding out where one is in the dark.\n\nJony Perl is brilliant! and such a gracious, generous man!! \n\nJust love the free tools from DNA Painter and these webinars too!\n\nLearning about the Beta version was awesome. I have used WATO and while I still haven't solved my question, I love seeing the possibilities. As an adoptee WATO is invaluable.\n\nLooking forward to trying WATO!\n\nLot of info to work on. Thanks.\n\nLove the case studies and the hands on examples of setting up the tree. I have tried before and got confused at how to start. Also love the GEDCOM idea to make all of this easier.\n\nlove the handout. \n\nLove the work the Jonny and his team have put together for us. Thank you\n\nLove this webinar!! So very well presented that even an idiot like me can understand! Thanks to Jonny for his time and effort to explain the WATO. \n\nLoved hearing more about WATO (which I've used) and the new features. Thank you!\n\nLoved it. I can't wait to go and use what I learned today\n\nLoved the analogy of a map with multiple known locations to find another location.\n\nLoved the webinar. \n\nMade my Day!! Jonny Perl has taken one step closer for everyone!!\n\nMore by this presenter, thank you.\n\nmost interesting

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7. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   Good presentation, very clear on how to use a complex tool.\n\nGot in late but what I did hear was very interesting. Can't wait to see the whole webinar . Thanks so much.\n\nGreat as usual. The information was very helpful.\n\nGreat content and excellent presentation. Thank you.\n\nGreat info!\n\nGreat info, well presented in a logical, easy to follow way. Amazing tool.\n\nGreat info. It was a little fast at times for such a new concept.\n\ngreat information \n\nGreat information and hope to start using it soon.\n\nGreat information but very fast-paced! I need another viewing to absorb more.\n\nGreat information for helping to track down dna ancestors\n\nGreat information! I look forward to visiting the DNAPAINTER website.\n\nGreat information. Will be checking this out. \n\nGreat job, Jonny!!\n\nGreat new features in the beta that I'm looking forward to exploring. Thanks, Jonny! I loved the analogy of using distances to Salt Lake City and Las Vegas!\n\nGreat one\n\nGreat presentation -- Thanks\n\nGreat presentation and explanation of the WATO tool! Jonny was very helpful in making me understand the features of WATO and how to use the amazing tool he created to help further my genetic genealogy research.\n\nGreat presentation to help understand DNA\n\nGreat presentation. Now to make it work for me.....\n\nGreat presenter, but topic way out of my experience and comprehension. \n\nGreat topic......hoping to use WATO to find my adopted son's father and mother for him. Look forward to viewing more webinars.\n\nGREAT WEBINAR\n\nGreat webinar! And handout! Thanks to Jonny Perl for all he does. \n\nGreat webinar!! Jonny made WATO understandable. I watch a presentation from Roots Tech that someone did and I was totally lost.\n\nGreat webinar!!! Will probably have to watch this multiple times to absorb all of the nuances of Jonny's presentation. \n\nHave a lot to learn\n\nhave not used WATO yet (did respond to polling question) so I will have to try it to get used to it. Many thanks to Jonny!\n\nThis was the best webinar I’ve had the pleasure of viewing. Thank you. So well organized. Clear. Great humour and so much information. \n\nI am a relative beginner and this was above my level of knowledge, tho very interesting.\n\nI am going to give it a try to help several "cousins" find bio-parents.\n\nI am very new to all this and it is confusing, but it is all very interesting. Thank you.\n\nI can't wait to apply what I learned!\n\nI enjoyed the webinar, and look forward to trying this out soon.\n\nI have not yet tried WATO although I have started painting in DNA Painter. Looking forward to new ventures with WATO. Thanks Jonny for a clear and informative presentation. I also heard you at RootsTech London.

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8. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   Excellent in all respects. Looking forward to using this tool for DNA.\n\nExcellent information and great tool!\n\nExcellent information. Will try out the new tool. Thank you!\n\nExcellent introduction\n\nExcellent Presentation\n\nExcellent presentation and tool!\n\nexcellent presentation on a complex topic! Thank you\n\nexcellent presentation. I have been able to put up several WATO trees and help discover unknown relationships. Once you understand the tool, it makes it so exciting ...... BIG thanks to Johnny, and Leah and you Geoff\n\nexcellent presentation...but I'll still have to review!!\n\nExcellent program!\n\nExcellent speaker, explaining difficult concepts well, excellent handout. Jonny Perl is one of the best assets to DNA and genealogy field today, in my opinion. THANK YOU! \n\nExcellent Webinar! Jonny is the best!\n\nExcellent webinar! Thank you Jonny and team for these awesome WATO updates! \n\nExcellent webinar! Thanks!\n\nExcellent webinar. I will look at this again. Complicated subject WATO. Good to be able to see the webinar over. Well done.\n\nExcellent! Thanks for this great tool.\n\nExcellent!! Thanks very much.\n\nExcellent!!! I just need to start using the tool before re-watching the webinar to gain the most benefit from Jonny's presentation today.\n\nExcellent, both content & presentation\n\nExcellent. Ready to listen/watch again to have it really sink in.\n\nExcellent--great analogies! Eager to try it out!\n\nExceptionally good webinar. \n\nExcited about the beta!\n\nexplained so well for such a complex subject\n\nFABULOUS!\n\nFantastic\n\nFantastic webinar, great to hear all about the new Beta WATO, cannot wait to put it to work. Thank you\n\nFantastic!\n\nFantastic! Amazing! I loved it! I finally feel I ca make real headway in finding my NPE!\n\nFascinating and thanks for asking my question Geoff\n\nFascinating!\n\nFor me it was technically involved, so I would have to play it over and over to understand. I think I liked the format and it was very interesting.\n\nGood info. Clearly explained info. Good presenter. Lovely to listen to his accent (from my U.S. point of hearing). It WAS a little too fast. It's not that I couldn't understand what he was saying; it was just too fast for me to comprehend before he was moving on to the next thing. I always felt a step or two behind. Glad the recording is available so I can go back to it again & this time pause it when I need to let my brain catch up. Thanks to Legacy & Jonny!\n\nGood information

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