Organizing DNA and the Public Land System on Saturday, January 18

Diahann Southard will live stream for our program, Understanding Your DNA Results. Now that you have pages of matches and gobs of new information, how do you keep track of it all? We will spend time going over how to create and track correspondence, organization tools within each testing company, as well as strategies for tracking the genealogy information of your matches, including surnames, locations, and genetic relationships. You are bound to walk out of this lecture with a game plan that you can implement right away.

But first, Jodi Lynn will be our first speaker with our short class with Understanding Townships and Ranges. The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is a way of subdividing and describing land in the United States. All lands in the public domain are subject to subdivision by this rectangular system of surveys, which is regulated by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Jodi Lynn will guide us through the use of the system.