Unlocking Your DNA Results (Part 2): Tools, Analysis & Hypothesis Testing is a series of 2 x 2-hour online workshops, designed to build on your foundational skills by exploring powerful DNA analysis tools. This hands-on workshop introduces DNA Painter, including WATO, and BanyanDNA, showing how to test hypotheses, evaluate evidence, and refine your conclusions. Learn how to move from possible connections to supported interpretations using structured, practical approaches.

What Participants Will Learn:

• How to use DNA Painter, including WATO, for analysis
• How BanyanDNA supports relationship evaluation
• Methods for testing and refining DNA hypotheses
• How to interpret results and assess likely relationships

Who Should Attend

Participants should already be familiar with interpreting DNA matches and basic clustering methods, either through Unlocking Your DNA Results (Part 1): Understanding Matches & Building Connections or prior experience.

What to Bring

Participants will need access to a computer for this workshop.

About the Presenter

Fiona Brooker’s family history journey started over 40 years ago with two 19th century marriage certificates taking her research into New Zealand, Australia, North America and the United Kingdom. While living in England, Fiona studied with the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies and obtained a Higher Certificate in Genealogy.

She’s a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and the Professional Historians of Aotearoa New Zealand (PHANZA). She has served as both President and Treasurer of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists (NZSG) and organised multiple conferences and family history expos.

Memories in Time (www.memoriesintime.co.nz) grew from her desire to help others trace their family history. She is a speaker at international and national conferences and enjoys teaching practical workshops on family history, DNA and AI, in person and virtually.  Fiona works with clients to take their research from folders and their computer, into the hands of their family.