20210828_Michelle Wilson

Meeting Information

Date: August 28, 2021
Presentation: 9:00 AM CST
Location: Zoom
Presenter's Website: http://chezbraywilson.blogspot.com

Presentation Description:

Inheritance results in only tiny changes in the Y-DNA men get from their fathers and the Mt-DNA we all get from our mothers.  But the inheritance process makes a scramble of our autosomal DNA.  Understanding inheritance is key to making sense of our match lists, and how our match lists are the key to both unlocking unknown parentage and to pushing back our ancestral lines.  We’ll use actual case studies and explore some third-party tools to apply this knowledge for cases such as unknown parentage and pushing back brick-walled lines to the next generation.  

In Best Practices (part 2) we’ll explore cases where matches don’t post trees and show how to get the most out of the hints in Ancestry’s ThruLines and MyHeritage’s Theory of Relativity.  

Meeting Schedule:

09:00-09:15 - Opening Announcements
09:15-10:15 - DNA Inheritance, our Match lists
10:15-10:30 - Q & A
10:30-10:45 - Break
10:45-11:45 - Best Practices Part 2
11:45-12:00 - Q & A

Presenter’s Bio:

Michelle Bray Wilson is a CAGGNI past president, founding co-leader of CAGGNI’s DNA special interest group, DAR registrar, and genetic genealogy search angel. She speaks throughout the Midwest on DNA for genealogists, writing family histories, French Canadians, and settling in northern Illinois. Her lecture style focuses on making complex subjects readily understandable. Wilson holds an advanced degree in engineering and worked in the encrypted communication and medical device development fields for over 30 years. She is currently accepting a limited number of genealogy clients and working hard on a study of a Métis / Voyageur family. She may be reached via speakers@caggni.org. Her personal family history blog is at http://chezbraywilson.blogspot.com/ 

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