Program: Ethnicity Estimates Are Not Always Useless: Learn What They Are (and Aren’t) Telling You
Speaker: Paula Williams

When: January 29, 2025 at 7:00pm Eastern

Zoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvcuqorz8rEtKiGQ64RhIw4wIDRXPtUUHa

Program Description: Ethnicity estimates are intriguing, frustrating, and often misunderstood. Learn how to understand what the results can teach us and the limitations we should respect.

Speaker Bio: Paula is a professional genealogist who has been researching for more than two decades in primarily southern US states and has been using DNA to solve problems for more than a decade. She has studied at IGHR, SLIG, GRIP, and the Genealogical Institute on Federal Records (Gen-Fed). In addition, she’s a board member of the Virginia Genealogical Society and of the Genealogical Research Institute of Virginia (GRIVA) and is the facilitator for the latter’s DNA Special Interest Group. She has taught at the IGHR and GRIP institutes and has lectured for Legacy Family Tree Webinars, the Southern California Genealogical Society’s Genealogy Jamboree and for the National Genealogical Society conference, among other organizations. She also serves as the Virtual Tech Coordinator for the GRIP Genealogy Institute.