Understand Your DNA Matches

Perhaps you have taken a DNA test, and now you're receiving notifications of matches and don't know what they mean. Join us on Join us on August 14th from 12:30-2 PM CDT to hear Dan Kastrul, CEO, author, musician and self-described DNA geek, help you make sense of those puzzling DNA matches with his talk, Understanding Your DNA Matches: Practical Examples.

Dan always has been intensely curious to learn more about his ancestry. Testing his own DNA as well as the DNA of close relatives on both sides of his family has helped him find long-lost branches of his family tree and reconnect with people in those branches. Although he is not a geneticist, he has successfully helped adoptees find their biological parents through a combination of DNA evidence and good old-fashioned genealogy research. Dan will offer a symphony of practical tips for using Ancestry, 23andMe, My Heritage, FamilyTreeDNA, GEDmatch and other online sources of information to make more sense of many of those unfamiliar names and faces on your DNA match list.

The program will take place on-line via Zoom. For more information and to register, go to https://www.mnjgs.org/event. Questions can be emailed to MNJGS at https://www.mnjgs.org/contact. The program is free for members, $5 for non-members. Payments can be made at https://www.mnjgs.org/support-us.