Next Thursday is DNA day at the Southern California Genealogy Society’s Jamboree in Burbank, one of my favorite events. I particularly love the outdoor bar restaurant between the hotel and the conference center. Usually the weather is perfect for spending the evening there with friends. If you have been wanting to buy me a glass of wine, here’s your chance!
Thursday also has a series of free events all day long, including a DNA round table at 5:00 pm with a number of DNA experts at tables. You can come to mine to ask questions about 3rd party DNA tools. [UPDATE 28 May 2018: I should also mention that the exhibit hall with all the main DNA vendors is also free on Thursday but parking is $15]
The speakers for the paid DNA day sessions on Thursday, besides myself, include Blaine Bettinger, Leah Larkin, Paul Woodbury, Emily Aulicino, Tim Jantzen, Shannon Christmas, David Nicholson, Daniel Horowitz, Schelly Talalay Dardashti, Diahan Southard, Barbara Rae-Venter, David Dowell, and many more. My sessions are “DNA Segment Triangulation” and Using DNA and GWorks for Unknown Parentage Cases.” Click here for the full schedule.
If you can’t get there, you can sign up for live streaming at http://genealogyjamboree.com/live-streaming-2018/ – sadly it is not free this year, but very inexpensive. In previous years you could buy recordings of many of the sessions, hopefully that will happen this year too.
The main genealogy sessions start Friday morning, but there is at least one DNA related session at every time slot including an “Ask the DNA Experts” at 5pm (and yes I am one of them). Saturday also has plenty of DNA sessions.
One of the regular genealogy sessions I particularly look forward to is Thomas McEntee’s Secrets of the US Federal Census: How Did Enumeration Really Work? I don’t know about you but my ancestors were often different ages in the different censuses and sometimes were from Sweden not Norway. Of course I later learned that until 1905, Norway was part of Sweden. Thomas is always a great presenter.
Naturally I will blog about any session I particularly enjoy! See you next week?
Enjoying the outdoor bar/restaurant: LtoR: Kitty, Debbie Kennett, Rachel Jantzen, Tim Jantzen
(yes its a dreadful picture of me but a good one of my friends and sitting outdoors at that bar/restaurant)
See you in a few days!
Of course I will be there…and thanks for including me in your post! We can WINE together! LOL
Sadly the live streaming is only for 6 of the Thursday presentations and yours are not included. I wanted to see your presentation on using Gworks. I have read your previous posts on this and I still am having trouble understanding how you are using Gworks. When I tried to follow your examples, either I was not understanding or my matches do not behave like your matches.
Vernon –
It is not that easy to understand apparently. My slides will be online soon after my presentation and the handout.
An adoption angel expanded my blog post to a full PDF at http://dnagedcom.com/docs/KittyBlogInstructions.pdf
see if that helps any
Thanks, Kitty. I will take a look.
I really enjoyed Jamboree last year and getting the chance to meet you and so many other of my genetic genealogy friends. I hope to get the chance to make a repeat visit one day.
Andy and I will be there. See you soon!!!