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JGSCT - About Our Next Program

When:  Sunday, May 18, 2025
Time:  1:30 pm
Speaker: Kitty Cooper


How to Attend:
  • Hybrid:  Either in-person at Temple Sinai, 41 West Hartford Road, Newington, CT or Virtual via Zoom
  • Registration is free for both members and non-members.   To register for the Zoom link - click here.

Program Description: 
​Title:  Working With Jewish DNA and GEDMatch 

Kitty will discuss the difficulties of working with Jewish DNA, share some success stories, and explain how the tools at GEDMatch and other sites can help you place DNA cousins on your family tree.


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About Our Speaker
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Kitty Munson Cooper is well-known blogger on genetics and genealogy who does many presentations about genetic genealogy topics. Her slides are available online and can be always found at https://slides.com/kittycooper. She has helped many people solve their unknown parentage questions with DNA testing. Thanks to having a Jewish grandfather, she has also become quite expert at dealing with endogamy in DNA results.
 
She started blog.kittycooper.com  in 2012 to keep track of her own family's genetic tests as well as her genealogical research. Then she added some tools she wrote for graphing DNA relationships and converting ahnentafel lists to GEDCOMs. Her compact chromosome browser tool is now part of GEDmatch. Her blog is very popular, getting several thousand unique visitors a day.
 
Kitty started programming computers in 1966 while still in high school and is retired from her own small web development business. She has a cum laude degree from Harvard University and is also a World Champion Bridge player. Born and raised in New York City, she lives in Avon, CT, most of the year (but San Diego in the winter time) with her partner Bart and dog Rockie.
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    • JGSCT History
  • Programs
    • About Our Next Program
    • Upcoming Programs: Save the Date
    • Marcia Indianer Meyers' Memorial Lecture
    • The Writers' Group
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    • Past Programs
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    • CT Resources
    • Jewish Genealogy Resources
    • Early CT Jewish Families
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