Ep. 135 - Diahan Southard - DNA and Genealogy Expert

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

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4.7 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Diahan Southard is the founder and CEO of yourdnaguide.com. After getting bitten by the DNA bug as a high school student, Diahan went on to study at Brigham Young University where she earned a bachelors degree in microbiology. She worked for the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, one of the first efforts to create a correlated genetic and genealogical database. She is the founder and CEO of Your DNA Guide, where she walks people step by step through any kind of DNA test in a way that they can understand—and even enjoy! She has lectured around the world to national and local audiences. She is the author of several quick guides on genetic genealogy, a featured writer for Family Tree Magazine, a regular contributor to Genealogy Today, a former contributor to Genealogy Gems, and contributor to several other publications. She is also the author of the book Your DNA Guide. In the episode we talk about her conversion as a teen, what genealogy means to her, what drives her passion for DNA and genealogy study and the eternal perspective of it all. Diahan is so energetic and engaging. You will love her story!

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0:00.0	The Latter Day Lives podcast is not owned or operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
0:09.4	Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and guests and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:28.0	Hello, friends.
0:32.2	Welcome to episode number 135 of the Latter Day Lives podcast.
0:34.3	I'm your host, Sean Rappere.
0:40.1	Thank you so much for joining us again this week. We've got a fantastic show for you.
0:45.8	Before we jump into this week's conversation, I do want to thank our reviewers this week on Apple podcasts. Thank you to Old KLT and G-Dog 1-1-3-4-5 for your incredible five-star reviews. We so greatly appreciate it. Thank you so much.
0:59.7	This week in the conversation, my guest, Diane Southerd, she is an expert in all things DNA and genealogy
1:07.6	and has such a great conversion story herself and shares an amazing genealogy
1:13.3	story about her mom. And she was so engaging and such a wonderful person to talk to. And you
1:18.9	will love this conversation. And coming up this week in my latter day life, grief. It's weird
1:25.3	and it is real. It's all coming up. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this
1:31.6	week's conversation. And my guest today here on the Latter Day Lives podcast is an expert in DNA and genealogy.
1:49.3	Diane Southerd, welcome to the show.
1:51.8	Thanks for having me, Sean. It's a pleasure to be here.
1:54.8	Oh, I'm so glad to have you on. So tell us where you're recording from.
1:59.6	Well, I'm actually recording pool side here in sunny South Florida.
2:04.7	I hesitate to say that even because I feel like when you start telling people that you have
2:09.6	gorgeous weather all year long and when you're stuck in quarantine, but you have a pool,
2:14.4	people just get a little grumpy about that.
2:18.1	But yeah, that's where I am.
2:20.3	All right, I am a little bit jealous.
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