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Name  - John A Creer BSc JP Member  - ISOGG, GoONS and the Cheshire and Manx Family History Societies Day Job -  I am a retired pharmaceutical company director with a science background.  I live in Cheshire, but my paternal family line comes from the Isle of Man. In the 1500’s the family name was McCrere. Night Job -  I run the following websites -  www.ballacreer.com www.creer.co.uk www.manxdna.co.uk What is your involvement with genetic genealogy? I am the coordinator of the Creer One-Name study as well as the Creer Y-DNA and Manx Y-DNA projects, and have been using DNA testing and analysis in support of my family history interests since 2005. So what will you be talking about? The presentation will illustrate my personal journey of discovery into my own Manx family history and show how the use of several types of DNA testing and analysis (Y-DNA and autosomal) have answered questions and solved problems, that the conventional paper sources and records a...

Name - Gerard Corcoran Member - ISOGG, GSI, Global Diaspora Forum Day Job - Senior Solutions Manager, Huawei Technologies - Internet and Telecommunications Industry Night Job - Genetic Genealogy Evangilist I've tested with National Genographic, FTDNA, 23andme, deCODEme, and BGI My special interests are Irish Migrations, Ireland Reaching Out, and Irish DNA Roots (see  http://pinterest.com/gerardcorcoran/ireland-reaching-out/ ) How did you get into genealogy? My father was born in 1900 and died in 2000 and was a great source for family history and lore going back to the 19th Century. I remember our conversations under a big plum tree in our garden. I collected all the scraps of information and computerised them in the early 1970s while doing a computer assignment at Trinity College. The punched cards used in those days were ideal for recording key life events of Family Tree members. I dug out all my old records in 2005 and began seriously devoting time to...

Name  - Nigel McCarthy Day Job - Project engineer, mainly in petrochemical construction industry Night Job - Administrator of the McCarthy (Y-DNA) Surname Study , and co-administrator of the Munster Irish (Y-DNA) Project . What's your involvement with genealogy? I've been a genealogist for 35 years and have been actively involved in the transcription of East London Catholic parish registers and the production of data CDs for the Catholic Family History Society. What about your involvement with genetic genealogy? I have been Administrator of the McCarthy (Y-DNA) Surname Study since 2010 and also the co-founder of the Munster Irish (Y-DNA) Project which I run with Elizabeth O'Donoghue-Ross and Finbar O'Mahony. So what will you be talking about? My presentation will cover the following: First millennium origins of MacCarthys according to ancient genealogical tracts  Second millennium MacCarthy septs  Use of McCarthy agnomens  Y-DNA profiling of McC...

Title of presentation:  How DNA can help at Tuam Member - ISOGG, APG, GOONS, IGRS, GSI Day Job - psychiatrist, pharmaceutical physician, & part-time actor Night Job - Project Administrator for several surname projects ( Gleeson , Farrell , Spearin , etc) as well as the  Irish mitochondrial DNA project  and the WWI Missing-in-Action Legacy Project How did you get into genealogy? My Dad has been "doing the family tree" on and off since I was a teenager. I remember him having long conversations with my granny on Sunday afternoons when we used to visit her in Clontarf. I think we still have the roll of engineering graph paper on which he drew his first version of the tree. It's up in the attic somewhere. I joined the fray about 2006 and quickly became addicted. I've been an avid genealogist ever since. What about your involvement with genetic genealogy? I first tested in 2008 and have since used DNA to trace one line of my family (the Spierin line) back to the 160...