Come learn how to translate those DNA test results into your own family history!  Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D., is a professional genealogist specializing in DNA evidence and the use of artificial intelligence for genealogical research. He is the author of the long-running blog The Genetic Genealogist. He also wrote The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy, and co-authored the award-winning Genetic Genealogy in Practice, the world’s first genetic genealogy workbook (with Debbie Parker Wayne).  Along with Judy Russel, he also published “Genetics for Genealogy” in 2018’s Professional Genealogy: Preparation, Practice & Standards (ProGen PPS) (Elizabeth Shown Mills, Author and Editor).

Bettinger will be presenting two lectures:

• Utilizing mtDNA and Y-DNA -- Y-DNA and mtDNA testing and have helped genealogists break through thousands of stubborn brick walls. Learn about the unique inheritance of Y-DNA and mtDNA in your family, how these tests can be used to explore your ancient ancestry, and how the results can identify your relatives both close and distant.

• Using Autosomal DNA for 18th and 19th Century Mysteries -- Even though our 18th and 19th century ancestors have been dead for decades, their DNA still survives in their descendants. Learn how to use autosomal DNA to attack and potentially solve genealogical mysteries and brick walls for ancestors who were born or lived in the 1800s, 1700s, and beyond.

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This event will be presented both in-person and online.  To attend online, you can visit our Facebook page or YouTube page; however, the presentations will not be archived.  So if you would like to attend online, you must attend live.

We will also be raffling Ancestry DNA kits (to in-person attendees only) at this event!