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MNJGS Event: You've Done Your DNA - Now What?

Sun, Apr 18

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Zoom link will be provided after RSVP

Who are these cousins you keep hearing about? And how are they related to you?

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MNJGS Event: You've Done Your DNA - Now What?
MNJGS Event: You've Done Your DNA - Now What?

Time & Location

Apr 18, 2021, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CDT

Zoom link will be provided after RSVP

About The Event

Many of us have sent our DNA for analysis, curious about what we might find. We receive an ethnicity estimate and a long list of matches ranging from 2nd cousins to more distant ones.  Sometimes we are contacted by people on the list of matches who are trying to decipher the relationship. Who are these people? And how do we make sense of their relationship to us?

Ken Bravo will help you create a strategy for reviewing and prioritizing that list. Bravo's presentation will cover his process, developed over many years, of working with genealogy and DNA matches. He demonstrates how he separates relatives due to endogamy from "real" relatives. He works with family trees and looks for linkages in the matches, often looking for common surnames. He will explain how people who have tested with multiple DNA providers can get different ethnicity results. Using examples from his own large…

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MNJGS, c/o Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest (JHSUM)

4330 S. Cedar Lake Road
Minneapolis, MN 55416

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