Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society presents Endogamy: Considerations for Analyzing Jewish DNA for Genealogy

Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society presents "Endogamy: Considerations for Analyzing Jewish DNA for Genealogy" on Dec. 10, 7-8:30 p.m.

Lara Diamond began researching her own family 30 years ago. She has traced all branches of her family multiple generations back in Europe using Russian Empire-era and Austria-Hungarian Empire records. Most of her personal research is in modern-day Ukraine, with a smattering of Belarus and Poland. She has done client research leading to their ancestors in many parts of the former USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania and more. Lara leverages her mathematics background and her endogamous Ashkenazic genome to augment document-based research with genetic genealogy and teaches how others can have successes in genetic genealogy in endogamous situations. In this talk, Lara will share her journey to discover her genetic routes, the challenges she faced and some creative solutions that helped her.

Lara is president of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland, leads JewishGen‘s Subcarpathian SIG, is on the board of the International Association of Jewish Genealogy Societies (IAJGS), and is on JewishGen‘s Ukraine SIG’s board of directors. She has lectured around the country and internationally on Jewish and Eastern European genealogy research as well as genetic genealogy. She also runs multiple district- and town-focused projects to collect documentation to assist all those researching ancestors from common towns. Lara blogs about DNA and her Eastern European research at http://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com.

The webinar is free but registration is required, as space is limited. See www.GHJGS.org or click here to register.