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

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…