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Presenter: Mindie Kaplan

"Relatives, Cold Calls and E-mails, & DNA Testing," provides techniques for reaching out to relatives, including those who are reluctant to meet with a stranger, and provides examples that will expand your research. Relatives: What can living relatives add to my research? How to contact "uninterested" relatives, starting a conversation that will get them to open up? Covered issues: family gatherings, preparation, audio/video recording, photos/scanning, documentation, and ethics. Cold Calls: How do you find people? How do you reach out to a stranger and convince them to talk? How do phone techniques differ from e-mails or social sites such as Facebook? What if they think you're a con-artist? How to build a relationship that will turn into a number of conversations, leading to more relatives? DNA Testing: How do you ask someone to take a DNA test? Who pays? What are some examples that will get them interested in participating?