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If your surname is on the list below, you may qualify for a Free Y-DNA test at Back to Our Past 2015 . Check the relevant surname on the ISOGG WIki's Free DNA Tests page to see a full description of the offer. If you think you do qualify either contact the Administrator of the project in question or ask at the FTDNA stand at Back to Our Past (RDS, Dublin, Oct 9-11 2015). ATHEY /ATHY - BARRETT - BARRY *- BARTLETT - BARTON- BONNELL - BOLT - BONNELL BOONE - BOWES - BRACEY - BROOKS - BREWERTON - BROOKSHAW - BUNCH - BURTON - CAIRD - CALHOUN - CALLAWAY - CARPENTER - CASSIDY* - CECIL - CISSELL - CHICHESTER - CHOATE CLOUD - COLDWELL - COLLINS - COLTON - CORBY - CORSON - COURTNEY - COVERLY* ( <-FF ) CRUMLEY - CRUSE/CRUISE/CRUWYS - CURD - DALTON - DANKO - DAVENPORT - DAW - DEVINE   - DEWBERRY - DIMOND - DOOLIN/DULING - DUNBAR - DUNCAN - DUNN - DURKIN - EASTMAN ELDER - FAMILTON - FARR - FARRIS - FAVELL - FITZGERALD - FLEMING* - FLOWERS - FOAD - FOX - FRAME/FREAME/FREMAULT - FRANKLIN - ...

Title of Presentation - Who are the Celts? So what will you be addressing? This is a controversial topic, since it has become fashionable to deny that anyone in Britain or Ireland was ever a Celt. Indeed the extreme version of Celtoscepticism aims to blot the Celts from history altogether. In essense this is an argument about ethnonyms employed in Classical sources. I aim to show that these need a more sophisticated interpretation, and to be combined with evidence from archaeology, population genetics and linguistics. Such a multi-disciplinary approach can shed light on the development and migrations of the peoples that I am happy to call Celts.  What is your background? What is a building historian doing delving into the days before buildings or history? Incurable curiosity is my only excuse. Though I have been interested in the human journey all my life, there has been little time to pursue this passion into the far past. Over the last quarter-century I have been too busy resear...

A chat with the Team from the Maine Irish Heritage Centre Deborah Sullivan Gellerson is a Board Member of the Maine Irish Heritage Center , a genealogist from Portland, Maine, an Irish citizen via her mom, and an organizer and volunteer for many local organizations. Margaret Feeney LaCombe is a genealogist who has been researching her own family roots and the Irish of Maine for over 15 years, and started the Center’s DNA project along with Maureen Coyne Norris, and created and maintains the Center’s genealogy database with help from the Center’s other genealogists like Deb Gellerson, author Matthew Barker, Krista Heatley Ozyazgan, Maureen Coyne Norris and Patricia McBride Flood. Maurice: So what will you be talking about? MIHC: The Maine Gaeltacht Autosomal DNA Project . Our presentation will give an overview of the Maine Irish Heritage Center and explain how to run a successful autosomal DNA project (as opposed to a Y-DNA project) using the DNA project at the Center as an example...

Title of your Presentation Origins of the Irish Your title Professor Emeritus Affiliation Archaeology, Queen’s University Belfast What do you do as a Day Job?  Retired but still keep active in research. What do you do as a Night Job? Same thing I do during the day. How did you get into genealogy? I inherited a family genealogy from a Grand Aunt Sadie (anyone who has roots going back to Kansas has an Aunt Sadie) and attempted to track it back further. Also, was invited and joined the Mallory surname project on FamilyTreeDNA. I also spent one Easter holiday dragging my three sons around northern England to visit the ancestral haunts of our family line. Tell us about your involvement with genetic genealogy My main interest is in tracing prehistoric migrations in Europe and assist, when requested, with ancient DNA researchers investigating population movement from western China to Ireland by providing both archaeological and linguistic backgrounds as well as sourcing suitable human...

FTDNA is offering DNA Tests at special low prices for BTOP Not only are  FamilyTreeDNA  sponsoring this years DNA Lectures (as they have done for the past two years), but they are also offering specially low prices for their DNA tests at  Back to Our Past   And for anyone who swabs at the event, you won't need to pay shipping costs either (usually 8.85 euro), so it is a double saving. Here are the special offers at this year's event: Family Finder (atDNA)   79 euro*    ($88, usual price $99) Y-DNA-37     116 euro*    ($129, usual price $169) Y-DNA-67     214 euro*    ($238, usual price ($268) Full Mitochondrial Sequence     152 euro*    ($169, usual price $199) The Big Y   438 euro*    ($488.75, usual price $575) FTDNA are also offering a 15% discount off any upgrade, so if you are thinking of upgrading from Y-DNA-37 to Y-DNA-67, now would be a perfect chance to do so...

Title of Presentation - The Irish DNA Atlas; Revealing Fine-Scale Population Structure and History within Ireland Degree - MSci in Biochemistry in Genetics Affiliations - Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, Genealogical Society of Ireland Day Job - Edmund is a PhD student at the RCSI Night Job - Edmund is a PhD student at the RCSI - does he ever sleep! How did he get into genealogy? Edmund got into genealogy through his PhD. The Atlas collects genealogical information of its participants, which is the first direct exposure he had to genealogy. It being quite new, Edmund is always a bit amazed how well you can predict the county of origin for participants based on their ancestor’s surnames. What about his involvement with genetic genealogy? Edmund is a PhD student at the RCSI working on the analysis of the genetic data produced by the Irish DNA Atlas, a DNA cohort where they have genealogical information on each participant as well. Currently the Atlas is working on investigating...