I have a conflict and cannot attend, but this meeting sounds interesting: GRIVA DNA SIG Tuesday, 13 June, 7 pm Eastern Virtual (Zoom) Meeting Register: https://tinyurl.com/GRIVADNAJune2023 You will re

Hi all, looking ahead, this is what's scheduled: June 12: Order Out of Chaos: Making Sense of DNA Data July 10: Is DNA Testing Anywhere But Ancestry.com Worth Your Time & Money? August 14: Useful "3rd

Wow. A deer tooth pendant carries the DNA of a woman from Eurasia:https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/a-deer-tooth-pendant-carries-the-dna-of-a-woman-from-eurasia/ Valorie -- she/her. "Dwe

Valorie she/her: Greetings, everyone! I'm happy to welcome you all to the 8 May 2023 meeting of the Genetic Genealogy from the South King County Genealogical Society. 27 attended; 21 Members: Valorie

Hi all, while studying more about charting, I was reading this post from Family Locket: New 52 Ancestor Blog post: Proving an Ancestor with DNA: Benjamin Cox (1791-After 1870) Do you have an individua

What Cheetahs, Armadillos and Whales Revealed About Human DNA Over a decade, scientists compared the genomes of 240 mammals to see how humans are the same — and different. Really interesting article I

I was going to re-watch the video in advance of our meeting next week, but was unable to play it though the Rootstech site itself. However, it is also on Youtube: https://youtu.be/pf6Aa_3os5Q labeled

Quoting from an article by Amy Slanchik Genealogists Announce Breakthrough In DNA Analysis Of Oaklawn Cemetery Remains Genealogists Announce Breakthrough In DNA Analysis Of Oaklawn Cemetery Remains Ma

DNA case study webinar by Diana Elder at Albuquerque Genealogy Society on Sat 4/15 at 12:30 PST. Here is reg link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tcumrqTMrG9Qp94mx58wk3uMzeaQPI-2E

10 April 2023 Genetic Genealogy Meeting 33 attended. 27 Members: Valorie she/her, Paul Baltzer, Bob Marvin, Sylvia Nelson, Alexis Hacker Scholz, Cynthia Davis, Dorothy Pretare, Tom Jacobs, Glenn York,

RootTech heard the pleas from attendees at RootsTech2023. Relatives at RootsTech now ends 1 Jun 2023. See https://www.familysearch.org/en/connect/b72a8a10-4959-4bd5-b39d-f99b00e8a946 where the date is

I've been trying to mark the groups surrounding my McBees so I can sort of isolate the matches I need to study. It looks like this will be nearly impossible until I figure out all the descendants of t

Hi folks, I recently identified a DNA match who is a descendant of double cousins, where first cousins marry, and ran across this excellent discussion (available both on youtube and their podcast) fro

Even if you have previously watched Diahan Southard on labeling your matches to use them as filters, this webinar is worthwhile. There is a pause of about 5 minutes before it really gets started; ther

13 March 2023 Genetic-Genealogy meeting 34 attended: 22 Members: Valorie she/her, Alexis Scholz, Bob Marvin, Joanie Bonner, David Hutchinson, MaryLynn Strickland, Janet Stroebel, Dorothy Pretare, Mary

I've watched the second and third of these events and have the first one queued up now. I watched the "Seedling" short episodes a year or more ago when they were first available. What a wonderful oppo

I've not seen the session yet, but Jonny Perl has a page on his site with all the tools listed: https://dnapainter.com/rt2023. Here's the session: https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/session/how-th

Rootstech sent me the recommendation to watch this session, so I did, and probably would not have otherwise. BUT, it's rather good! And not just on the beginner level. DNA Misconceptions: https://www.

North San Diego County Genealogical Society is offering a free seminar in April "Digging into DNA". Looks really good. Here is registration link https://nsdcgs.org/springseminar/

Just watched Diahan Southard's RootsTech session, Shared DNA Matches - the only DNA Tool You will Ever Need: https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/session/shared-dna-matches-the-only-dna-tool-you-wil