The Southern Arizona Genealogy Society (formerly Green Valley Genealogical Society) is hosting a two-day special Southern Arizona DNA Event on February 14 and 15, 2020, featuring The Genetic Genealogist, Blaine Bettinger. The event will take place in Green Valley on Friday and in Sahuarita on Saturday.
Friday’s event will consist of two workshops. The morning workshop is Working with Testing Company Results and the afternoon is a DNA Painter Workshop. Only those who have DNA results and have them uploaded to GEDmatch should attend the workshops. Please bring a fully charged laptop or tablet.
Saturday’s event is a full day seminar. Blaine will speak on four topics:
• Using Y-DNA and mtDNA to Explore Your Ancestry
• Using Autosomal DNA for 18th and 19th Century Mysteries
• Evaluating a Genealogical Conclusion Including DNA
• The Danger of Distant Matches
Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D., is an intellectual property attorney by day and a DNA specialist by night. In 2007 he started The Genetic Genealogist, one of the earliest blogs on the topic.
Dr. Bettinger has been interviewed and quoted on personal genomics topics in Newsweek, New Scientist, Wired, and others. He is the author of The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy, and co-author with Debbie Parker Wayne of the award-winning Genetic Genealogy in Practice, the world’s first genetic genealogy workbook. He also co-authored “Genetics for Genealogy” with Judy Russell in 2018’s Professional Genealogy: Preparation, Practice & Standards (ProGen PPS) (Elizabeth Shown Mills, Author and Editor). He is the founder of DNA Central, a website dedicated to educating others about the use of DNA to explore their ancestry.
Click here to visit the Southern Arizona Genealogy Society’s website for details about this event and to register.
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