Ethnicity Testing: Why Is My Indian Princess Wearing a Kilt?

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Nov 21 2019

Learn what your DNA test’s ethnicity results mean for you and your genealogical research.

Pikes Peak Genealogical Society presentation by Dr. Greg Liverman will include:

A brief DNA for refresher
Our paleolithic kin: Neanderthals and Denisovans
Migration patterns of our ancient ancestors using Y-DNA, mtDNA, and atDNA
Interpreting “ethnicity” reports – what is ethnicity?
What do atDNA biogeographical admixture (“ethnicity”) reports tell us?
Why is the report different from what I was told by me family? How does atDNA recombination effect the results?
Which companies report is right?
If time is available: Walk through of AncestryDNA, 23andMe, and LivingDNA

Experience level: Beginner, but some knowledge of and experience with DNA testing is good.