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Dr Spencer Wells of the National Genographic Project is to give the Keynote Address at Genetic Genealogy Ireland 2014. Dr Wells is is a leading population geneticist and director of the Genographic Project from National Geographic.  The Genographic Project is the brainchild of Spencer Wells. First started in 2005, Dr. Wells heads a team of renowned international scientists and uses cutting-edge genetic and computational technologies to analyze historical patterns in DNA from participants around the world to better understand the genetic roots of all humanity.  The project has three components: To collaborate with indigenous and traditional peoples around the world in the collection and analysis of research data To involve the general public in this real-time scientific project and to learn about their own deep ancestry in the process (by purchasing the DNA Ancestry Kit, Geno 2.0) To support community-led indigenous conservation and revitalization projects Dr Wells's own p...

The last few days have seen an excellent turnout at the first International Conference organised by the Institute for Genetic Genealogy in Washington. This was the first international conference of its kind and a Big Thank You has to go to the far-sighted Tim Janzen and CeCe Moore for organising this fabulous event.  Over 400 people attended this event, the first of its kind, and what struck a lot of us on the first day was the high level of discussion and debate that occurred amongst the audience both during and after the lectures (in the Question and Answer sessions). Whilst there were beginners there, and the conference certainly catered for them admirably, the majority of the attendees were intermediate to advanced in terms of their knowledge and experience of genetic genealogy. This allowed more high level debate than one sees at general public events and it was a nice and necessary change. So much was learnt from the Q&A sessions after each lecture. The incredible team f...

The genetic genealogy community is well represented at this year’s Genetic Genealogy Ireland. The good news is that this year every possible speaker slot has been used up and the packed lecture schedule promises to be both informative and exhilarating.  Returning speakers include some very familiar names: Katherine Borges (US), director of ISOGG ( International Society of Genetic Genealogy )  Gerard Corcoran (IRL), ISOGG Ireland regional representative Debbie Kennett (UK), author, blogger , project administrator, & Honorary Clinical Research Associate at University College London  Cynthia Wells (US), project administrator, Assistant Director of the Reedy Creek Family History Centre Tyrone Bowes (IRL), director of IrishOrigenes Maurice Gleeson (IRL), project administrator and coordinator of Genetic Genealogy Ireland New speakers from our genetic genealogy community include: Paul Burns (US), administrator of the Byrne DNA Project Emily Aulicino (US), project adm...