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  • Challenges of Endogamy: Jewish DNA testing 2021

    Working with DNA testing presents unique challenges to the Jewish genealogical community due to the close relatedness of their DNA and the lack of deep family trees

    Created Mar 17th, 2021 310 1

  • GEDmatch Basics 2021 - FHF Winter of DNA

    Using the tools at GEDmatch, the Basics for Finding Relatives and more: Presentation by Kitty Cooper http://blog.kittycooper.com

    Created Jan 22nd, 2021 721 7

  • Unknown Parentage Searches Part 1: Rootstech Connect 2021

    Unknown Parentage Searches I: The Basics

    Created Dec 25th, 2020 282 6

  • Unknown Parentage Searches Part 2 - Rootstech 2021

    Automated tree building tools like DNA2tree and Genetic Affairs are making many unknown parentage cases much easier to solve. These are game changers!

    Created Dec 25th, 2020 193 1

  • One World, One Tree - Rootstech Connect 2021

    The concept of a one world tree is to have a database where genealogists collaborate with just one copy of each ancestor. Which of the three major one tree websites is best for this: FamilySearch, Geni, or WikiTree?

    Created Dec 20th, 2020 113 0

  • Using Theories of Family Relativity at MyHeritage

    How to use the Theory of Family Relativity at MyHeritage to build your tree and meet cousins

    Created Nov 22nd, 2020 450 0

  • Third Party DNA Tools - CAGGNI

    Expore GEDmatch, Clustering and other tools for analyzing cousin matches

    Created Sep 11th, 2020 501 3

  • One World, One Tree - - CAGGNI 2020

    The concept of a one world tree is to have a database where genealogists collaborate with just one copy of each ancestor. Which of the three major one tree websites is best for this: FamilySearch, Geni, or WikiTree?

    Created Sep 5th, 2020 447 1

  • Using DNA for cousin matching - - CAGGNI 2020

    How to look through your DNA matches to find those real 3rd and 4th cousins

    Created Sep 5th, 2020 452 0

  • The Challenges of Jewish DNA testing

    Working with DNA testing presents unique challenges to the Jewish genealogical community due to the close relatedness of their DNA and the lack of deep family trees. Short presentation for the IAJGS Ask the DNA Experts Q&A session

    Created Aug 10th, 2020 795 1

  • Finding family with DNA at MyHeritage

    How to use your DNA test results for your genealogy research: ethnic ancestry, finding cousins, and more

    Created Jul 28th, 2020 589 2

  • Unknown Parentage Cases using Automated Tree Building -i4GG 2020

    Automated tree building tools like DNA2tree and Genetic Affairs are making many unknown parentage cases much easier to solve. These are game changers!

    Created Feb 1st, 2020 1,172 1

  • GEDMATCH, why use it and what's new - i4GG 2020

    What is new at GEDmatch and why it is still indispensable for the serious genetic genealogist

    Created Jan 30th, 2020 1,219 1

  • New tools for DNA cousin matching - January 2020

    Expore clustering and other new tools for analyzing cousin matches

    Created Jan 17th, 2020 1,103 3

  • New tools for DNA cousin matching

    Expore clustering and other new tools for analyzing cousin matches

    Created Oct 4th, 2019 2,175 9

  • Unknown Parentage Searches - Sept 2019

    Using GWorks and other tools for adoption searches

    Created Sep 10th, 2019 2,891 14

  • Crossing the Atlantic to Norway

    How to trace your Norwegian immigrant ancestor from America back to Norway

    Created May 27th, 2019 1,811 7

  • Unknown Parentage Searches - Jamboree 2019

    Using GWorks and other tools for adoption searches

    Created May 23rd, 2019 2,050 2

  • You DNA tested, Now What? 2019

    How to use your DNA test results for your genealogy research: ethnic ancestry, finding cousins, and more

    Created Feb 10th, 2019 1,749 4

  • GENESIS Basics 2019

    Using the tools at GENESIS, the Basics for Finding Relatives: a free third party site for DNA comparisons Presentation by Kitty Cooper http://blog.kittycooper.com

    Created Feb 10th, 2019 3,362 10

  • What's new at GEDmatch - i4GG 2018

    What's new at GEDmatch this year is the acceptance of its usage for Law Enforcement. The other new thing is the latest GENESIS site. Soon all GEDmatch kits will be migrated to that new database

    Created Dec 5th, 2018 4,072 13

  • UnknownParentage searches - i4GG 2018

    Using GWorks for adoption searches

    Created Dec 5th, 2018 1,767 1

  • UnknownParentage searches Fall 2018

    Using GWorks for adoption searches

    Created Oct 12th, 2018 1,434 0

  • DNA Triangulation -2018 fall

    How to use triangulation to confirm DNA relatives

    Created Oct 12th, 2018 1,702 1

  • Challenges of Endogamy: Jewish DNA testing

    Working with DNA testing presents unique challenges to the Jewish genealogical community due to the close relatedness of their DNA and the lack of deep family trees

    Created Oct 11th, 2018 1,632 2

  • Working your DNA cousin matches

    How to use your DNA test results for your genealogy research

    Created Oct 1st, 2018 11,530 40

  • DNA Triangulation for FHF -2018

    How to use triangulation to confirm DNA relatives

    Created Jun 30th, 2018 1,564 3

  • GWorks for UnknownParentage searches

    Slides for my 2018 Jamboree talk on GWorks for adoption searches

    Created May 25th, 2018 4,589 5

  • DNAgedcom and UnknownParentage searches

    Slides for my workshop on using various DNA tools for adoption searches

    Created Feb 10th, 2018 1,211 0

  • DNA Triangulation -2018

    How to use triangulation to confirm DNA relatives

    Created Feb 10th, 2018 2,587 1

  • You DNA tested, Now What? 2018

    How to use your DNA test results for your genealogy research: ethnic ancestry, finding cousins, and more

    Created Jan 24th, 2018 2,570 0

  • New at GEDmatch and Genesis in 2017

    Using tag groups at GEDmatch and tools at the new GENESIS site: free third party sites for DNA comparisons Presentation by Kitty Cooper http://blog.kittycooper.com

    Created Nov 6th, 2017 4,151 9

  • You DNA tested, Now What?

    How to use your DNA test results for your genealogy research: ethnic ancestry, finding cousins, and more

    Created Sep 11th, 2017 3,456 4

  • Richard Weiss's presentation on DNAgedcom

    Richard Weiss of DNAadoption.com explains the tools at DNAgedcom.com

    Created Jul 21st, 2017 3,193 3

  • Using DNA for Adoption Searches

    Slides for my workshop on using various DNA tools for adoption searches

    Created May 31st, 2017 2,641 5

  • GEDmatch Tier 1 tools - 2017

    Using the Tier 1 tools at GEDmatch a free third party site for DNA comparisons Presentation by Kitty Cooper http://blog.kittycooper.com

    Created Mar 17th, 2017 6,296 15

  • DNA Triangulation -2017

    How to use triangulation to confirm DNA relatives

    Created Feb 5th, 2017 4,408 11

  • DNA Testing Basics

    How personal genome tests can help a genealogist

    Created Nov 11th, 2016 4,955 11

  • GEDmatch Basics 2016

    Using the tools at GEDmatch, the Basics for Finding Relatives: a free third party site for DNA comparisons Presentation by Kitty Cooper http://blog.kittycooper.com

    Created Oct 17th, 2016 6,293 11

  • DNA testing for Genealogists

    How personal genome tests can help a genealogist

    Created Jul 11th, 2016 2,769 7

  • Using your DNA test results with jewish ancestry - case studies

    How to use your DNA tests when your ancestry is Jewish including several case studies

    Created Jul 9th, 2016 2,643 1

  • GEDmatch Tools 2016

    Using the tools at GEDmatch 2016: a free third party site for DNA comparisons Presentation by Kitty Cooper http://blog.kittycooper.com

    Created Jun 15th, 2016 6,506 20

  • Family Tree University presents: Jewish DNA testing

    Working with DNA testing presents unique challenges to the Jewish genealogical community due to the close relatedness of their DNA and the lack of deep family trees

    Created Feb 26th, 2016 2,568 0

  • DNA Triangulation -2016

    How to use triangulation to confirm DNA relatives

    Created Feb 5th, 2016 3,650 5

  • DNA Triangulation -2015

    How to use triangulation to confirm DNA relatives

    Created Feb 4th, 2016 2,976 0

  • Propogation Talk

    Propogating plants in the san diego area for our plant sale

    Created Jan 18th, 2016 815 0

  • Breaking Brick Walls With DNA

    Two personal success stories of breaking genealogical brick walls with DNA

    Created May 30th, 2015 3,783 11

  • The Challenges of Jewish DNA testing

    Working with DNA testing presents unique challenges to the Jewish genealogical community due to the close relatedness of their DNA and the lack of deep family trees

    Created May 12th, 2015 3,108 1

  • One World, One Tree 2017

    The concept of a one world tree is to have a database where genealogists collaborate with just one copy of each ancestor. Which of the three major one tree websites is best for this: FamilySearch, Geni, or WikiTree?

    Created Feb 13th, 2015 2,165 0

  • One World, One Tree

    The concept of a one world tree is to have a database where genealogists collaborate with just one copy of each ancestor. Which of the three major one tree websites is best for this: FamilySearch, Geni, or WikiTree?

    Created Feb 7th, 2015 3,980 1

  • GEDmatch: Ancestry Composition Tools

    Using the tools at GEDmatch to look at Ancestry Composition - Presentation by Kitty Cooper http://blog.kittycooper.com

    Created Aug 19th, 2014 198,359 916