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A big thank you to all the speakers at GGI2018 last weekend. The conference was once again a great success and the room was filled to bursting point on many occasions.  The videos will be going up on the YouTube channel over the course of the next several weeks, but in the meantime, h ere is a handy list of the DNA Lectures at GGI2018 with links to the live-streamed videos on the GGI Facebook group. Just click a link to view the live-streamed recording of the lecture. You will be prompted to join the GGI Facebook group if you haven't joined already. My thanks to Michael C Carragher for putting this list together. Genetic Genealogy Ireland 2018 Checklist - Dublin, Ireland Website:  http://ggi2013.blogspot.com/ YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnW2NAfPIA2KUipZ_PlUlw FaceBook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/geneticgenealogyireland/ Friday, October 19, 2018 DNA for Beginners   (Debbie Kennett) Time 1:00:17 How DNA can help at Tuam   ...

There are fifteen lectures and three Panel Discussions at this year's Genetic Genealogy Ireland. And there are twenty people either speaking or appearing on the Expert Panels. The Speaker Profile page gives a complete run-down of this year's Speakers, together with a brief biography, how they got involved in genetic genealogy, and what they will be talking about this year. Speaker Profile page Simply visit the  Speaker Profile page  and click on the Speaker's name to see their profile. Beginner's talks will be given by Debbie Kennett and Donna Rutherford .  Ancient DNA will be covered by Lara Cassidy (reporting on >100 ancient Irish genomes). Topics around Ethics, Privacy & Data Protection include talks by Barbara Rae-Venter , James Irvine ,  Debbie Kennett  & Maurice Gleeson .   Third Party tools will be the subject of a variety of presentations, including those by Cathal McElgunn (Promethease), Martin McDowell (Lazarus), Katherine Borges ...

Last year, we had a great line-up of speakers and topics for GGI2017 . The 3-day event (20-22 Oct 2017) had the largest audiences yet, but as the lecture area was in the main hall of the exhibition centre, the sound quality of the recordings of the lectures was less than optimal. Nevertheless, with a bit of technical massaging, the audio has been manipulated to be as good as it can possibly be and on some of the videos it is reasonably okay (despite the background noise). The entire collection of GGI2017 videos is now online All of the videos (15 in total) are going online en masse today (11 Oct 2018) and you can view them on the Genetic Genealogy Ireland YouTube Channel . For ease of reference, here is a list of the videos. To view a lecture, simply click on the speaker's name. Academic Topics Prof Gisli Palsson ... Icelandic Roots & Identities: genealogies, DNA, & personal names Prof Hannes Schroeder ... The Genetics of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade Prof Dan Bradley ....

GGI2018 takes place over the weekend of October 19 th -21 st 2018 at the RDS (Royal Dublin Society) in Ballsbridge, Dublin. Below is the final schedule for the DNA Lectures. These will take place upstairs in Dodder Suite 5A (the same room as in previous years) and will be well sign-posted from the floor of the exhibition hall (just follow the signs for DNA Lectures). It is planned to record the lectures and make them available on the Genetic Genealogy Ireland YouTube channel . A new lecture will be posted each few days following the end of the conference, so that by the end of November all the lectures will be available online. Friday 19 th  Oct 2018 11.30   DNA for Beginners  (Debbie Kennett, ISOGG, UK) Thinking of taking a DNA test? Wondering how DNA can help your family tree research? Just got your results and wondering how to interpret them? Then this beginner’s talk is for you. 12.30   How DNA can help at Tuam  (Maurice Gleeson, ISOGG, I...

Presentation: The North East Galway DNA Project - how Gedmatch & Facebook combined are helping people connect with their Galway roots. Membership: ISOGG Background: Martin Curley is a native of Guilka, Menlough in east Co Galway. As a teenager he began to start handwriting his family tree but this was limited due to the lack of access to records. His interest was revived when he emigrated to the US and met family on both paternal and maternal sides in New York, New Jersey, and Salem, Massachusetts.  He began to start compiling other families' trees when living in Liverpool, England with much success and gave him an idea to consider working full time in genealogy. Returning to Ireland in August 2013 he started his own business in Genealogy and Heritage, working with schools delivering workshops and with families in researching their long lost cousins.  Hod did he get involved in Genetic Genealogy? DNA tests became popular in 2015 and Martin was at the forefront in east Gal...

Presentation: Unusual use of Third Party Tools Membership: ISOGG, European Society of Human Genetics, Clogher Historical Society. Day Job: Ph.D. Molecular Biologist.  Industrial Principal Scientist in London, with expertise in sample preparation, assay design/development, amplification technologies and bioinformatics. Night Job: Project Administrator for the McElgunn family project. How did you get into genealogy? During my childhood, my father took me to see my great, great, great grandfather’s 1846 gravestone in South West Ulster. My father, together with a Monaghan man, had put together my paternal family tree back in the 1980’s. Distant relatives from North America and Australia occasionally visited my parents to trace their roots.  At the close of 2008, I renewed my interest in both sides of my family tree realising that those with the knowledge would not be around for ever. I travelled to visit relatives in various parts of Fermanagh, Leitrim, Cavan, Donegal, Yorkshir...

Presentation: Untangling a Tumbleweed Branch of the Y-DNA Tree Background: Dr John Brazil MSc PhD. Retired. Now an Independent Researcher ISOGG Ireland What do you do as a Day Job? Previously a Clinical Biochemist, a Medical Science Researcher, a Medical Laboratory Scientist, a Laboratory Information System Manager and a Public Health Information Systems Manager. What do you do as a Night Job? I am investigating the genetics of my own Brazil family and other Brazil families in Ireland. I am also an FTDNA Project co-administrator with a number of Y DNA haplogroup projects including R1b-CTS4466 Plus and RL21 4466&SouthIrish. I am especially interested in R-A151 and particularly my own R-A714 sub-branch, trying to identifying historical events that might explain their distribution and the various surnames associated with these branches. How did you get into genealogy? Having a relatively unusual surname I am repeatedly asked where it came from and usually encounter surprise when I rep...