The next monthly genealogy club meeting at the Lyon County Museum, 301 West Lyon Street, Marshall is an afternoon workshop with a speaker. The workshop is Monday, October 6 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. The schedule for the workshop: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM: Introduction to DNA Match Sorting, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM: Speaker available to attendees, and 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM: Understanding DNA cMs and how to determine relationships.
About the Workshop:
Introduction to DNA Match Sorting
This workshop will give an overview of DNA Match sorting and genetic inheritance when seeking to connect DNA Matches with common ancestors; and the ethics associated with such discoveries.
Understanding DNA cMs and how to determine relationships
This workshop will give an overview of working with DNA Match’s shared cMs to help genealogists discover how DNA Matches may be related. Discussion will focus on how to interpret cMs to indicate how someone could or could not be related, the probabilities, and how their shared DNA could help place them in one’s family tree.
About the Speaker:
Sarah Lockwood is a proud Minnesotan, with ancestry from both an adopted family and a birth family. Forensic genealogy has been a personal journey for Sarah. As an adoptee, she used what she learned about forensic DNA matching to find her own birth mother and father! She turned her love of genealogy into a professional business. She began AncestryHelp in 2022, as a small business, to help others discover their family history one ancestor at a time and to help fellow family genealogists strengthen their research skills. Her two favorite projects to work on are writing family narratives and teaching research skills. Sarah has earned certificates in Genealogical Research from Boston University, Investigative Genetic Genealogy from Ramapo College, and has completed a ProGen Study Group.
The workshop is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact the Lyon County Museum at 507-537-6580 or director@lyoncomuseum.org.