You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Jun 17, 2023 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Meet Dr. Lee Martinez
Early adopter of genetic
genealogy * Expert in Y-DNA research * New Mexico Genealogical Society’s DNA
Project
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Introduce the two types of Family Trees, Genealogical and
Genetic.
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Introduce Y-DNA and Y-DNA research and tests.
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Introduce two companion tools that can be used to analyze
branching points: the Y-DNA Block Tree and the Discover More tool.
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Discuss the important role we can play as genetic genealogy
citizen scientists.
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Introduce basic terminology from genetics and microbiology
helpful to understand test results.
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Explain how the Big Y Block Tree is a pedigree of SNP mutations
and that the Discover More tool can be used to do age estimates.