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Who Do You Think You Are 2014 is due to take place at Olympia in London on Feb 20-22. This year's DNA Workshop presentations promise to be the best yet.  Sponsored by FamilyTreeDNA and organised by ISOGG, the lecture schedule includes something for the beginner, the intermediate and the advanced genetic genealogist. The full schedule for all 3 days of lectures can be found here - http://www.whodoyouthinkyouarelive.com/workshop-timetable Beginners will be particularly interested in the introductory lectures on DNA and how it can help your family tree research. Autosomal DNA and it's application to genealogy is discussed in bespoke lectures on each of the 3 days. Specific lectures will discuss DNA projects in England, Scotland and Wales. Among the academic speakers, Prof Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum draws on recent study findings to illustrate how Continental Europe and the British Isles were populated. Jean Manco picks up this theme and explores how the genetic m...

A Happy New Year to everyone - here's hoping it brings you lots of good things and many new genealogical discoveries. It's great to start the year off with some good news, and in that regard it gives me pleasure to announce that the very popular presentation that Adrian Martyn gave on The Medieval Families of Galway Town is now available to watch on YouTube . Adrian discusses the Medieval Families of Galway Town and why we need DNA studies on them. He also takes an in-depth look at the Tribes of Galway of which there were fourteen - Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, Darcy, Deane, Font, French, Joyce, Kirwan, Lynch, Martyn, Morris, Skerrett. You can read more about Adrian on his  Speaker Profile page . The presentation starts at 1 minute 22 seconds, just so you can skip ahead to the good bits!   Update (Nov 2016) Adrian has just published the long-awaited book on his research and it is available now at his website  www.adrianmartyn.ie . "Fourteen families from the medieval...

One of the most popular talks at this years GGI2013 was The Munster Irish DNA Project presented jointly by Elizabeth O'Donoghue / Ross, Nigel McCarthy and Finbar O Mahony.  The good news is that the slides from this excellent presentation are now available for download from Elizabeth's profile page or simply  by clicking here . The YouTube videos of the presentations are proving to be very popular indeed and even though it is only 6 weeks since the event took place, they have been viewed a total of 3000 times for 37,500 minutes (that's 625 hours). The YouTube Channel is simply called Genetic Genealogy Ireland and you can access it here . And if you're stuck for a Christmas present for someone, why not take advantage of the FTDNA Christmas sale. This goes on until 31st Dec and they usually extend it for a few days into the New Year. The Y-DNA-37 test is only $119 (usual price $169). The Family Finder test is it's usual price of only $99, but, if you live in the US, ...

Maurice Gleeson presents at FTDNA Conference On Sunday 10th November, Maurice Gleeson provided feedback on GGI2013 at the 9th Annual Conference of FamilyTreeDNA, sponsors of GGI2013. His presentation emphasised the success of Ireland's first genetic genealogy conference and was enthusiastically received by both the sponsors FTDNA and the assembled audience of about 250 project administrators. With a bit of luck, we will be able to repeat the event again next year. The FTDNA conference was very well attended and there were some excellent presentations. Several people did extensive write-ups of the conference and Debbie Kennett has summarised them in her blog post here . In addition, FTDNA announced a special offer! FTDNA's new Big Y test The Big Y DNA Test replaces the Walk the Y test and covers 10 million base pairs. It will help identify many more SNP markers and will help further elucidate the finer branches of the Y-DNA haplotree. It is on offer at $200 less than it's n...

The GGI2013 conference starts today. Be sure to follow the Facebook updates and the Twitter feeds  #ggi2013 , and why not watch the presentations on our dedicated YouTube channel - most will be uploaded there immediately after each talk. Help make this conference a success - please Like, Comment, & Share -  http://www.youtube.com/ channel/ UCHnW2NAfPIA2KUipZ_PlUlw

Patrick Guinness will be joining the panel discussion on The Genetic History of Ireland (Fri 18th Oct at 16.45). The following information about Patrick is taken from Wikipedia Patrick Guinness From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Patrick Desmond Carl Alexander Guinness, KLJ (born 1 August 1956 in Dublin ) is an Irish historian and author , and one of heirs of the Guinness business dynasty. Son of Desmond Guinness and Marie-Gabrielle von Urach, he was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College Dublin . He continues his father's business in real estate development and is a financial analyst. He formerly represented Sothebys in Ireland. Historian A historian, Patrick Guinness has authored a biography of Arthur Guinness , the founder of the Guinness brewery dynasty. [1] [2] He has lectured on genetic genealogy relating to the early Irish dynasties  and Viking Ireland , and has sponsored academic research on Irish genetics. [3] [4] He is a council member of the Coun...

Name  - Margaret Jordan Member  - I am a member of the Accredited Genealogists of Ireland -  http://accreditedgenealogists.ie/margaret-jordan-bsc-h-dip-ed-m-a-g-i/ Day Job  - My background is in science and mathematics and I taught in a second level school until I took early retirement in 2006. I live in Co. Cork, Ireland. How did you get into genealogy? I started researching the Irish side of my family tree in 1997. My father was fostered and with very little paperwork to go on, it proved very difficult to make progress so I turned to DNA in 1999. What about your involvement with genetic genealogy? Over the years, I became more and more involved in using DNA in family history research. I was involved in setting up the O’Shea yDNA Project in 2003 and the Ireland yDNA Project in early 2006. I am also using autosomal DNA in my family history research. So what will you be talking about? I will be part of the panel discussing the Genetic History of Ireland (on ...