PA chapter Third Tuesday Zoom PROgram

The Pennsylvania Chapter’s series of Third Tuesday Zoom programs continues. Presented at 7:00 PM ET, they are free and open to all. Join us for our January program:

Evaluating the DNA of Palatine Families
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

This program will focus on how DNA can be used as a tool to enhance family history, particularly as we use DNA to link families together and discover new details about our ancestors. The talk will give detailed examples among families who lived in the Palatine region of Germany, and among Swiss-German who settled in the Palatinate for several generations from the mid-1600s to mid-1700s before immigrating to Pennsylvania.

Darvin L Martin has been passionate about family history since his youth and began to explore ways to use DNA testing to solve family history puzzles since these tests were first offered more than twenty years ago. His interest in history, particularly local history not found in common textbooks, compelled him to blend a career of scientific research with the pursuit of his own ancestry, seeking to understand the lives of his ancestors, many of whom are from Palatine families. He has chaired the Lancaster Family History Conference from 2003 through 2019, and serves as Group Administrator of the Mennonite and Amish Immigrants DNA Project.

Register here to join us for this program. If you have a question that you want to ask, feel free to email us in advance at info@pennpalam.org or pennsylvaniapalatines@gmail.com.