Winner of our second Prize Draw

Congratulations to Mrs Coffey from Clare !!

She is the winner of our second Prize Draw for a Free DNA Test to be given out at the FTDNA stand at Back to Our Past.

If you are attending the event, be sure to enter for a chance of winning.

The final two prize draws are on Mon 14th and Tues 15th October (next week), so be sure to enter now. Just go to the Free DNA Tests page and follow the instructions.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Peter Sjölund - Speaker Profile

Image
Talk Title:  The Power of Mitochondrial DNA Affiliations I am one of the founders of SSGG, the Swedish Society of Genetic Genealogy. Also a member of ISOGG. What do you do as a Day Job? I’m a professional Genetic Genealogist at the company DNA Academy, providing training, presentations and consultancy for genealogists. I am also an author, having written a handbook in genetic genealogy and a popular science book on the peopling of Sweden, spanning the past 11,000 years. I am a regular contributor to the Swedish genealogy magazines. Before I did go 100% into genetic genealogy, I worked many years as a chemical management consultant. What do you do as a Night Job? When I’m not deep into mutations, DNA segments and church records, I have a family of four, 10 chickens and a farm house built in 1799 to care for. How did you get into genealogy? I have always been interested in local history and I love solving mysteries, so I got hooked on genealogy 30 years ago. My special interest is to...
Read more

Jens Carlsson - Speaker Profile

Image
Talk Title: The genetic identification of the 1916 Cork Rebel, Thomas Kent Affiliations: University College Dublin – School of Biology and Environmental Science/Earth Institute Qualifications: PhD in Population Genetics (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden) What do you do as a Day Job? Lecturer at UCD What do you do as a Night Job? Research, primarily focused on aquatic organisms including fishes, shellfish and hydrothermal vent and methane seep fauna. My research interests are in conservation, ecological and population genetics, as well as evolutionary biology. I employ genetic tools at population and individual levels to study genetic questions (gene flow, genetic drift, effective population size and selection) and to couple genetics with behaviors (kin-biased behaviours, reproductive success, mate choice, migratory behavior and life-history). I am also interested in conservation genetics, functional genomics and studies that combine population genetics, beh...
Read more

How do you feel about your DNA being used by the police? - the results of a survey

Image
Background In April 2018, US police finally identified a murder victim (known as " Buckskin Girl ") whose identity had remained a mystery for 37 years. Despite everything that they threw at the case, Forensic Science could not come up with the answer. But Genetic Genealogy did, and in doing so, made history. The Buckskin Girl case was solved in 4 hours once the kit had been processed by Gedmatch The excitement generated by the case did not have a chance to die down because two weeks later, the prime suspect in the  Golden State Killer case  was arrested, causing a media storm. Once again, genetic genealogy techniques had helped identify the most likely candidates for the killer, and (using routine police work) officers had followed these leads and gathered the evidence necessary to bring charges against a single individual. Since then  over 11 people  have been arrested and charged with rape or murder, thanks to the application of the new technique by Law Enforcement...
Read more