Looking Back on ECGGC 2025
Presented by the East Coast Genetic Genealogy Conference committee and mitoYDNA.org, this 4th annual event, was streamed live September 12-14, 2025 using the vFairs platform.
Speakers and Presentations
Jim Bartlett
More Segmentology
Katherine Borges
Epigenetics: Health & Haplogroups
Kelli Jo Bergheimer
DNA Success: Understanding Genetic Networks
Greg Clarke
WikiTree
John Cleary
BanyanDNA: a power tool for knocking through brick walls?
Janine Cloud
Lessons from Big Y: Beyond the Haplotree
Roberta Estes
Rewriting the Tree of Humankind: The Million Mito Project – What Is It, How We Did It, and What It Means to You
Tami Dee Garcia
Living Legacies: Turning Genealogical Research into Compelling Stories
Mags Gaulden
1) The Seven Words You Can't Say In Genetic Genealogy; 2) The DNA Matrix, A Modified McGuire Method
Maurice Gleeson
Breaking through Sequential Brick Walls in an Irish Family Tree
Richard Hill
1) MyHeritage; 2) MyHeritage DNA: From the Office to Your Results
Daniel Horowitz
1) Behind the scene of MyHeritage success stories and pro-bono projects; 2) Four Tools and Some Colors to Crack Your DNA Matches on MyHeritage
Kate Penney Howard
War Babies: Finding Lost GI Fathers Through DNA
Wesley Johnston
Tools for Autosomal DNA Project Success: Putting the Pieces Together
Peggy Jude
Just Got Your DNA Results? 13 Things You Can Do Next
Dawn Kosmakos
Case Study: Making Sense of Multi-Generational Misattributed Parentage
Maarten Larmuseau
"Mommy's baby, daddy's maybe": Genetic Genealogical reconstruction of Extra-pair Paternity Behaviour
Michelle Leonard
A Guide to "What Are The Odds (WATO)?"
Steve Little
Workshop: AI Tools and Tables
Martin McDowell
Raising the Dead
John Motzi
BanyanDNA: Cutting Through Complex Genealogies (co-presenter)
Adina Newman
Welcome to X Ed!: Using X-DNA in Genetic Genealogy
Jonny Perl
Recent Developments at DNA Painter
Margaret Press
BanyanDNA: Cutting Through Complex Genealogies (co-presenter)
Aimee Rose-Haynes
From Paper Trails to DNA: The Evolution of Genealogy in the Age of Genetic Testing
Katy Rowe-Schurwanz
Finding Sarah's Family: Confirming Connections Through DNA, Documents, and Group Projects
Diahan Southard
One Plan, Many Kits: A Smarter Way to Use Multiple DNA Tests
Jerome Spears
Let's Talk About Genetic Recombination (Often Times ... The Elephant in the Room)
Mark Thompson
Excel for Genetic Genealogist Workshop
Rob Warthen
1) Introduction to DNA for Genealogists; 2) What's New on DNAGedcom
Paula Williams
Summon Your Inner Sherlock Holmes