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Talk Title: Adding DNA to your Family History Society Affiliation: member of the NIFHS Qualifications: 23 years works experience in a criminal investigative role What do you do as a Day Job? Medically retired Police Officer What do you do as a Night Job? 24/7 genealogist How did you get into genealogy? I was always interested in my family which became a hobby back when I was a teenager (many moons ago). I recall sitting down with my mum and a blank A4 sheet of paper and drawing out our family tree. It was my own curiosity, wanting to know my roots. So that was that, completely hooked on finding out more information who they were, where did they live, what life was like for them growing up in Ireland and where they came from in generations past. My only regret was not starting sooner and asking my elderly relatives. My parents would say these names of people when I was young and I never thought then to ask about them. I just never knew how we connected. One fact drew me into res...

Presentation:  Match Making in Clare using atDNA & Y-DNA Qualifications: MA, MLitt, PhD Memberships:  Chairperson emeritus of Clare Roots Society, Public Relations Officer of Kilrush and District Historical Society, Ireland Reaching Out volunteer Parish Administrator for Moyarta civil parish in County Clare, council member and former chairman of Council of Irish Genealogical Organisations, member of ISOGG, Irish Genealogical Research Society, Thomond Archaeological and Historical Society, Shannon Archaeological and Historical Society, Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, etc. Day Job - no time for one! Night Job - genealogy. For more details of all my activities, see my website: http://pwaldron.info/ How did you get into genealogy? I am a third generation genealogist. My grandfather began work on the family tree before he retired at 65 in 1949. His mother had four children before she turned 21, including my grandfather and his identical twin, and she lived to 88...

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...

Talk Title: Testing Ancestral Remains: the Barrymore Project  Qualifications:  PhD, Prof Cert (Forensic Radiography), FRAI, MCSFS, Cert FA-III Membership: - Royal Anthropological Institute (Fellow and Certified Forensic Anthropologist) - Chartered Society of Forensic Science (Professional Member) - British Association for Human Identification (Council Member) Background: René is a freelance Consultant Forensic Anthropologist in Ireland. He trained as a Medical Dissector/Prosector in Berlin, Heidelberg and Düsseldorf in Germany and pursued doctoral research studies in Forensic Anthropology and Human Anatomy at University College Dublin in Ireland. Dr Gapert holds a PhD in Forensic Anthropology/Anatomy and a Professional Certificate in Forensic Radiography. He is an accredited Forensic Anthropologist under the UK Justice System and has over 20 years of experience in the dissection of the structures of the human body and 14 years of experience in the examin...

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...

Talk Title:  Navigating the New World of Genetic Genealogy Affiliations: Founding Member of ISOGG Technical Assistant/Webmaster for JoGG Memberships: Daughters of the American Revolution United Daughters of the Confederacy Southern California Genealogical Society Background:  Linda Parker Magellan is an independent Professional Genetic Genealogy Consultant who has travelled internationally assisting individuals in the discovery of their ancestry through the use of DNA testing.    Linda enjoys putting the pieces of the puzzle together to solve the mystery of one’s genetic inheritance.      Linda ordered her first DNA test kit in 2003 and has been hooked ever since.    She now administers several surname projects and has experience with FamilyTree DNA, 23andMe, AncestryDNA, and The Genograpic Project.    As a founding member of the International Society for Genetic Genealogy, Linda has long regarded education a priority and conti...

Presentation: Introducing DNA for family research Affiliation: Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) British Chapter Membership: Cork Genealogical Society Society of Genealogists [UK] Cloyne Literary and Historical Society ISOGG Background:  Ann Marie Coghlan is a Professional Genealogist living in Ireland. She is a member of The British Chapter of APG : The Association of Professional Genealogists. Ann Marie’s background is in Education and in Business Consultancy. She manages Social Media for Cork Genealogical Society and has the Cork Genealogical Society’s Facebook pages with its private Hubgroup for Cork DNA. She is also the Admin for The Cork Ireland Project, The Nagle Family Project and McGrath Clan Project hosted at FamilyTreeDNA. What do you do as a Day Job?  Professional Genealogist at ‘ Family Past & Place Genealogy Services’. What do you do as a Night Job?  My own research if I’m lucky ! How did you get into genealogy? As a small child, looking at ...

Title of Presentation Y-SNPs: Key to the future Membership ‐ ISOGG Day Job Retired from IBM after 40 years in sales, services and product development. Talk Summary The impact of the explosion of Y-SNPs being discovered is covered in depth in Robert’s presentation. It shows how Y-SNPs can organize surname projects by Y-SNP. It explores how Y-SNPs can be used to determine when Y-STR matches are not actually related. Y-STR “signatures” are covered in depth and how these signatures can be used to determine relatedness and predict Y-SNPs which reduce Y-SNP testing costs. With such plentiful Y-DNA data becoming available, the combination Y-STR signatures and extensive Y-SNP testing now allows the creation reasonably accurate genetic descendant charts by extending Y-STR signatures into the genealogical time frame. Biography Robert has been an active genealogist for forty years, publishing nine 600 page family histories at his web site. Ten years ago, he started concentrating on genetic genea...

Title: Investigating Family History Mysteries with DNA: The Tools Talk Description: Your autosomal DNA test results are in, so what’s next? What do we do with the pages of matches? Explore the latest tools offered by Family Tree DNA as well as the third-party tools offered by GEDmatch, DNAGedcom, and Genome Mate. Discover which tools are most useful for your situation and how to develop a DNA research plan to help solve your own family history mysteries. Background: Jennifer Zinck is a researcher, writer, and speaker from the United States who specializes in the intersection of traditional and genetic genealogy. She frequently speaks and presents workshops on topics including beginner and intermediate genealogy, genetic genealogy, using DNA for unknown parentage, and technology for genealogy. Jennifer routinely attends conferences and participates in professional groups to remain current in her field. Jennifer serves as the President of the Connecticut Professional Genealogists Counci...

Title of presentation The DNA of Clan O’Brien Background Dennis is a member of the Society of Australian Genealogists, and Administrator of the O’Brien Surname Project . What do you do as a Day Job? Retired International Logistics Specialist in Customs Laws University lecturer and Teacher at various Business Colleges in Australia and China What do you do as a Night Job? Genealogy, DNA Director of the Mary Wade Society in Australia How did you get into genealogy? Born as a 3rd generation member to an Australian/Irish Catholic family. This offered lots of chances to meet my many great Aunts and Uncles and many cousins. In my mid-teens the elder Aunt asked me to read a small book she had written about the eldest of 10 children brought up in an Irish Catholic family in country Victoria, Australia. I was so hooked, I told my father of the book, he arranged for it to be printed and it became the base of all family research for our family in Australia and Ireland. Within a few years I started...

Title The DNA of the Dál gCais and sub-clades discovered with Big-Y Qualifications BSc (Chem) VUW Wellington NZ Membership ISOGG Biography Dennis Wright has born in New Zealand and his interest in Genealogy began over 40 years ago following up family stories which led him back on his maternal side to Robert the Bruce, Scottish, English and ultimately European Royalty. He even found a line going back to Brian Boru.  On his paternal side however, he has battled against an early 19th century brick wall in New Zealand for some 40 years. In 2005 it was suggested that DNA testing may help him break through and indeed it did. But to his surprise he found his paternal ancestry was Irish, not English as his name would suggest. Dennis administers the FTDNA R-L226 Project and has maintained a DNA website for this Irish cluster. He authored a paper in the Spring 2009 edition Journal of Genetic Genealogy, entitled " A Set of Distinctive Markers Defines a Y-STR Signature for Gaelic Dalcassian...

Talk Title Testing Ancestral Remains: The Barrymore DNA Project Background Jim Barry is the administrator of the Barry DNA Project and a member of the Earls of Barrymore Project , the first effort to do DNA testing of the remains of a member of the Irish aristocracy. Jim has been an amateur genealogist for more than 30 years and a genetic genealogist for more than five. Educated as a social scientist, he was a professor of politics at George Mason University and a researcher in conflict resolution at the University of Maryland. Jim has published in the fields of international politics, negotiation and artificial intelligence. His family is from Barryroe, County Cork. Membership International Society of Genetic Genealogists; New England Historic Genealogical Society How did you get into genealogy? My interest in genealogy began more than 30 years ago when my parents passed away and I wanted to learn about their families, which were rarely discussed when I was young. It was only in the ...

The opening and closing times for this year's show have recently been changed. They are not the same as previous years. Back to Our Past is now opening earlier (at 11am each day) and closing earlier (at 6pm each day, instead of 7pm). As a result, the timings for the DNA Lectures have been shifted back by 30 minutes and so each presentation will be starting 30 minutes sooner than previously advertised. Below is the revised Timetable together with a detailed breakdown of each of the talks. Key:  Y , Y-DNA topic;  M , mtDNA topic;  A , autosomal DNA topic (click to enlarge) DNA Lecture Schedule (Genetic Genealogy Ireland 2016) Sponsored by  FamilyTreeDNA  and organised by  ISOGG  (International Society of Genetic Genealogy) FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER 11.10 - ISOGG Ireland update ( Gerard Corcoran , ISOGG Ireland rep) Subject: general Gerard gives an overview of recent developments in Irish genealogy and genetic genealogy in particular. His presentation will inclu...