“My mother was adopted and I am curious about her biological family. I and my sister took at DNA test. Now I have all these relatives I didn’t know where to place in the family tree. I needed someone well versed in DNA and with a methodology to sort through all the 2nd and 3rd cousins. Payton is that person. With her knowledge of DNA and her technology skill set, Payton demonstrated how to sort my cousins in excel by their centimorgans, using DNA Painter and Lucidchart to illuminate specific family members. After moving several blocks on my family tree and deductive reasoning there we were staring at the person who would be my biological grandmother.
Working with Payton, she shared my enthusiasm and excitement. She was willing to guide me through this process and thoroughly explain to me, in basic terms as I am not a geneticists, how to use DNA and mtDNA to identify family members in much deeper understanding than Ancestry or 23 and Me.
That day working with Payton, I will always remember..as that was the day I got my big “Ah ha!” moment in my tree.”