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We have a great line-up of speakers for GGI2016, which once again is kindly sponsored by FamilyTreeDNA and organised by volunteers from ISOGG , the International Society of Genetic Genealogy.  Below is the final schedule.  This is the fourth year of Genetic Genealogy Ireland . We have 21 speakers and 21 presentations, making this the joint largest genetic genealogy conference in the world (along with WDYTYA in the UK). This year's theme is:  Remembering 100 Years Ago And this theme is very much in line with all the 1916 / 2016 activities that have been going on in Ireland all year to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising and the continued Irish involvement in World War One. We are now in a decade of centenaries in Ireland, starting with the Dublin Lockout of 1913 and culminating with the emergence of modern Ireland as a Free State in 1922. Several of the presentations speak directly to the theme. Jens Carlsson from University College Dublin will be talking about the...

Background A microbiology graduate, Diahan Southard has spent 15 years in the genetic genealogy industry. In her current position as Your DNA Guide , she provides personalized, interactive experiences to assist individuals and families in interpreting their genetic results in the context of their genealogical information.  She is also the author of DNA Quick Guides, producer of a video tutorial series, as well as a featured author for Family Tree Magazine and regular contributor to Your Genealogy Today. What do you do as a Day Job?  This is it! What do you do as a Night Job?  I am a mom. How did you get into genealogy? Can I just say divine providence? My high school English teacher advised all of us seniors to get involved in research as soon as we started college. So, I did. I walked into the Microbiology department at Brigham Young University and asked to see a list of research interests of the professors in the department. After a boring list including bacteria and v...

If you are coming to Genetic Genealogy Ireland 2016, there will be many talks and tours around the centenary of the Easter Rising. Irish politics and Irish history are not the easiest to understand at the best of times, but John D. Ruddy has put together a great little video that gives you the key facts about the Easter Rising in a very digestible fashion. He has also created an excellent video on World War One, which serves as the backdrop to the Easter Rising. Thanks John! Maurice Gleeson August 2016

The Battle of the Somme started this month 100 years ago and lasted for 5 months.  Over 1 million soldiers lost their lives and many of them were never recovered from the battlefield. Every year the remains of about 30 to 60 soldiers are recovered from the fields of northern France during routine farming and road widening works. In all probability, some of these men are Irish. Over 200,000 Irish men fought in the British Army and over 3500 lost their lives at the Battle of the Somme. Nearly 2000 were from the 36th Ulster Division and 1200 from the 16th Irish Division .   In total, it is estimated that at least 35,000 Irish soldiers were killed in World War One (a figure that is likely to increase as research continues). That represents almost 20% of the total number of Irish men who joined up. Identifying our war dead will be one of the topics at Genetic Genealogy Ireland 2016. Irish soldier fatalities by county in WWI (from www.ccea.org.uk )  Maurice Gleeson July 20...

Once again, this year's Genetic Genealogy Ireland boasts a host of fabulous speakers on a diverse range of topics.  These DNA Lectures at Back to Our Past have grown in popularity since they first started in 2013. The event has proved so popular that this year we have quite a few people coming from overseas to speak at the conference, as well as our own more local academics and genetic genealogists from the Hibernian Peninsula!  We are truly blessed to have such top quality speakers. This year we commemorate the centenary of 1916 and what a tumultuous year it was, for both Ireland and Europe. The Easter Rising in Dublin was followed by the Battle of the Somme. Thousands of people lost their lives and the course of history was changed forever. Both these events, which had such a huge impact on the Irish people, are reflected in the topics for this year's DNA Lecture schedule. The lineup of speaker's at GGI2016 include the following: Prof Dan Bradley , Trinity College Dublin...

With Who Do You Think You Are just finished in Birmingham, we can look forward to Back to Our Past in Dublin, which this year runs from October 21st - 23rd. The Back to Our Past website has been redesigned and this year will usher in some new changes to the exhibition too. There is already an exciting line-up of speakers at this year's Genetic Genealogy Ireland (the DNA Lectures at BTOP) - more to follow shortly! Here is a recent announcement from the Back to Our Past team: Regular News Updates On Tracing Your Irish Roots View this email in your browser Ireland's Only Dedicated Genealogy and Family/Social History Event Returns to the RDS for the 7th Year! Welcome to the first newsletter of Back to Our Past, brought to you by the organisers of the Back to Our Past Exhibition which takes place in October every year in the RDS. Over the next few months we will be updating you with news not just on this years event, but on genealogy/family history in general. So if you have an int...

This Genetic Genealogy Ireland website came into existence in July 2013 and over the course of these past 3 years it has attracted quite a bit of traffic. Below is a break down of the metrics associated with this website and the associated Genetic Genealogy Ireland YouTube Channel . Both sets of metrics use Google Analytics. How much traffic is the website getting? So far, the website has been viewed more than 130,000 times. Because the Genetic Genealogy Ireland conference occurs each October, the highest volume of traffic to the website occurs in the few months prior to this time. This is also the time when most of the blog posts are posted. October is the peak month for traffic with 6000 views in October 2013, 13,000 in October 2014 and 10,000 in October 2015. But even during its quiet time, the blog attracts about 100 views each day. Website traffic since inception Who is the audience for Genetic Genealogy Ireland? Not surprisingly, the country with the most views is the United Stat...