LYON COUNTY MUSEUM

GENEALOGY CLUB MEETING OCT. 6
The next monthly genealogy club meeting at the Lyon County Museum is an afternoon workshop with a speaker on Thursday, Oct. 6.
The workshop will be held from 1-4 p.m. Introduction to DNA Match Sorting will be held from 1-2 p.m. This workshop will give an overview of DNA Match sorting and genetic inheritance when seeking to connect DNA Matches with common ancestors; and the ethics associated with such discoveries.
Sarah Lockwood will be the speaker. She will be available for questions from 2-3 pm. Lockwood is a proud Minnesotan, with ancestry from both an adopted family and a birth family. Forensic genealogy has been her personal journey. As an adoptee, she used what she learned about forensic DNA matching to find her own birth mother and father. She turned her love of genealogy into a professional business. She began AncestryHelp in 2022, as a small business, to help others discover their family history one ancestor at a time and to help fellow family genealogists strengthen their research skills.
Understanding DNA cMs and how to determine relationships will be from 3-4 p.m. This workshop will give an overview of working with DNA Match’s shared cMs to help genealogists discover how DNA Matches may be related. Discussion will focus on how to interpret cMs to indicate how someone could or could not be related, the probabilities, and how their shared DNA could help place them in one’s family tree.

VETERAN COFFEE SLATED FOR OCT. 7
The next monthly Veterans Coffee at the Lyon County Museum will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 7. The monthly coffee is open to all veterans. Enjoy coffee, water, juice, and treats while visiting with fellow veterans in the ice cream shop at the museum.