Learn to Do the DNA Step-by-Step at Your DNA Guide–the Academy
We’ve taught more than 10,000 DNA courses to adult learners like you.
We know from experience that true DNA learning requires sustained support–not just a one-time webinar. Our courses use our unique SPIN process, structured so you:
STUDY
PRACTICE
IMPLEMENT and consider
NEXT STEPS.
The SPIN process gives you time to process what you learn. You build on your knowledge with step-by-step instruction and practice. Each course comes with a customized level of support, depending on the topic, so help is available if you get stuck.
Your DNA Guide—the Academy offers a more extensive, hands-on approach to a truly effective, confident genetic genealogy education. Our students find DNA answers! Like missing birth relatives or ancestors—or at least connections that will eventually lead to them.
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Start Here: Guided Tours of Your DNA Testing Companies
Learn to navigate AncestryDNA, MyHeritage DNA, 23andMe and FamilyTreeDNA’s Family Finder tests confidently–and get those test results working for you!
Too many people get confused when trying to understand their DNA test results–or they miss important nuances in what their DNA is telling them. Our on-demand Tour experience walks you through your test results and explains everything you see. You can watch the engaging video instruction and do the exercises in your companion PDF workbook at your own speed. Start, stop, and come back if you need to, or rewatch whenever you want. Comes with a handy digital Quick Reference Guide for the important tools and features you’ll want to visit on the site.
DNA Skills Workshop | The Ultimate Masterclass
FINALLY master your DNA matches with this multi-week autosomal DNA masterclass! Bring your DNA test results from AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA, and/or Living DNA. Learn to organize and analyze them to build your family tree, connect with living relatives and find answers to your family history mysteries.
Finding Living Relatives Course
Get step-by-step instruction in the proven strategies experts use to identify unknown matches (even those without trees!) and and how they fit into your family tree. Enroll now and get started in this on-demand, coach-monitored course right away–those mystery matches won’t identify themselves!
mtDNA for Genealogy Course
Understand your mtDNA test results and learn how to use them effectively with our on-demand, coach-monitored learning experience that helps you master mitchondrial DNA, also known as mtDNA. Enroll now and begin your confident mtDNA journey!
WATO Course
Take your DNA learning to the next level with our on-demand, coach-monitored learning experience that helps you master WATO, one of the most important 3rd-party genetic genealogy tools. Enroll in this on-demand, coach-monitored course and start heading toward confident mastery of WATO now.
Shared Matches of Matches: A DNA Grouping Strategy Course
Master the use of those game-changing tools for analyzing shared matches of matches! You’ll make more DNA discoveries, more confidently–in less time and with less confusion–with this breakthrough tool and our breakthrough process for using it. On-demand, coach-monitored enrollment means you can get started right away to learn to organize the breathtaking amount of DNA data these tools provide–and focus on the matches that matter most.
Endogamy & DNA Course
Endogamy complicates efforts to build family trees using DNA evidence. This course teaches productive, straightforward strategies for starting to address endogamy with your DNA matches. This coach-supported cohort course only opens once a year or so: click to enroll or join the waitlist.
YDNA for Genealogy: The Guided Plan Edition Course
YDNA testing can reveal deep geographic origins and also genetic connections dating back much further than the 5 generations revealed by autosomal DNA. Learn to understand what your YDNA is telling you–and to use YDNA testing effectively to answer specific questions about paternal lines (recent or ancestral). This coach-supported cohort course only opens once a year or so: click to enroll or join the waitlist.
Ongoing Learning: Keep Up Your DNA Progress
DNA Study Group: For Ongoing Learning and Support
Join monthly live classes, case study reviews and regular Q&As with Diahan Southard and her team of expert DNA coaches. It’s fun, it’s affordable and it keeps you diving into your DNA on a regular basis. More than 2500 students have joined us in the DNA Study Group! Click to join the waitlist or enroll (enrollment only opens periodically).
When You Need Expert DNA Advice
Coaching: Expert One-on-One Tutoring
Book a live, 30-minute or 60-minute confidential video consultation with one of our expert DNA coaches. You’ll get confidential, one-on-one review of your specific DNA question and situation. You will receive insights and recommended next steps for your specific situation. The service includes a recording of your session plus an email that summarizes key points. Our coaches provide over 650 hours of support per year here at Your DNA Guide–they are experienced both in DNA analysis AND in how to explain it so it makes sense to YOU.
Not ready yet for Your DNA Guide Academy?
- Keep learning—join the conversation in our online community! (It’s free to join, you’ll just need to make an account.)
- Read Diahan’s popular step-by-step, do-it-yourself Your DNA Guide—the Book, with customized plans based on your goals
- Get hands-on, one-on-one Coaching to help guide you through your unique DNA questions and testing results
