Tracing Your Roots with DNA

Sunday, October 21, was our fall meeting of the Golden Wheat Chapter of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR). First we all sat down for a covered dish dinner and afterward the recently departed Elvest Lehl's son gave a talk on the Airtrain that Elvest had been working on up to the time of his death. The work on the Airtrain will continue and hopefully some day be a reality. Our guest speaker was Frank Jacobs who reported to us on the use of DNA in tracing our ancestry and what interesting things he has found out about his via this method. He explained about the movement of groups of people throughout history and the reasons behind whole ethnic groups moving from one location to another. That male lines can be traced back in a more definite line than female and it is therefore necessary to have a male of a family for DNA sample. In the picture below, Frank Jacobs is the one in the suit.

My son set up presentation equipment from T&S Mobile Projectors for both presentations.