SGS Computer IG abt "Your Genes and Genealogy" on 12/8/2001 The December 8, 2001 meeting of the Seattle Genealogical Society Computer Interest Group features Anna H. Chavelle, M.D., speaking on the "Impact of the Human Genome Project on Genealogy." She has extensive professional experience in microbiology and her presentation promises to be extremely interesting and informative. Dr. Chavelle will open with a history of genetics, the discovery of DNA, the Human Genome Project, and mitochondrial DNA. She will explain gene testing and therapy, before moving on to the genealogical applications of mitochondrial genetic testing (identifying your maternal ancestry) and Y chromosome genetic testing (verifying your paternal heritage). Finally she will discuss some ethical considerations of this technology. Quoting from Byran Sykes fascinating book: "The Seven Daughters of Eve", W. W. Norton & Co., 2001, p. 288, "Until I started this work I always thought of my ancestors, if I thought of them at all, as some sort of vague and amorphous collection of dead people with no solid connection to me or the modern world, and certainly no real relevance to either. It was interesting enough to read about what ‘the Cro-Magnons' got up to all those years ago - but nothing much to do with me. But once I had realized, through the genetics, that one of my ancestors was actually there, taking part, it was no longer merely interesting - it was overwhelming." Please join us. MEETING LOCATION at SGS NEW OFFICE and LIBRARY We will meet Saturday, December 8th, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the new office and library of the Seattle Genealogical Society. They are located at 6200 Sand Point Way NE, #101, in Seattle, WA, across the street from the National Archives Pacific Branch. Parking is available on the nearby streets. On the Metro Transit #74 & #75 bus lines. Accessible to the Handicapped. The SGS Computer Interest Group is the first established computer genealogy group in the US (January 1981) and second in the world (one in Sweden was first). David Ault, Chair, Seattle Genealogical Society Computer Interest Group Computer Interest Group E-mail: mailto:[email protected] SGS Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~waseags/ SGS Phone: 206-522-8658 SGS Office & Library: 6200 Sand Point Way NE, #101, Seattle, WA 98115 ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.