CJH shares video on interpreting DNA results for Ashkenazi Jews

Nov 24, 2025
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The Center for Jewish History has shared its video of a June 9 presentation by Jenny Rappaport, the center's head genealogist, on interpreting DNA results for Ashkenazi Jews. Among the topics covered: How endogamy affects DNA matches, Ancestry DNA match hints, matches that look closer than they are, techniques to analyze endogamous DNA results without a chromosome browser, methods to sort DNA matches and other tools to analyze matches. You can watch the free video here.

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