DNA Summer School : The Advantages of Y-DNA
Education ZoomY-DNA can be a very powerful tool to break through a brick wall. It can be used on any of your family lines if you test the correct person. This […]
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Y-DNA can be a very powerful tool to break through a brick wall. It can be used on any of your family lines if you test the correct person. This […]
The Advantages of MT-DNA Mitochondrial DNA is the least used DNA test within Northern Ireland however it can give you useful information about your family lines going back many hundreds […]
Just starting out on your DNA journey? Faced with a list of cousin matches with surnames that you don’t recognise? This session will introduce you to a simple methodology which […]
We all have DNA matches on our X chromosome. We can access these from our standard (autosomal) DNA tests. Find out how! We can learn different things from brothers’ and […]
Using the maternal and paternal tabs on Family Tree DNA is an excellent way to make progress with your DNA matches. This session will cover how the integration of your […]
How can DNA testing help with your family history research? This session will look at how you can maximise success when analysing your DNA results and help you to fulfil […]
The Ballycarry DNA and its new sister project based in the parish of Islandmagee has already confirmed many links between our volunteer testers and between our testers and others around […]
To avoid any doubt, proving DNA matches conclusively requires the use of a chromosome browser. This talk will explain the basic concept of what this tool can do and how […]
This session will explain how ethnicity percentages are calculated and how they can be useful in analysing your DNA cousin matches. For more details and Booking - go to the […]
Chromosome painting is a relatively new, yet powerful, tool available through DNA Painter which can be used to identify which segments of DNA you get from which ancestor. In this […]
An online Zoom class with Martin McDowell As Halloween approaches, this talk will focus on how to reconstruct the DNA of deceased ancestors such as parents and grandparents. This is […]
An online Zoom class with Mike McKeag Most of us can trace some of our ancestors back to the 1830s, before the Great Famine. What were they, their lives, their […]
An online Zoom class with Anne Johnston WikiTree is a free genealogy website that allows users individually to research and contribute to their own personal family trees, whilst building and […]
An online Zoom class with Anne Johnston. When we think of searching the web, most of us think of Google’s search engine, but there’s a lot more to Google, especially when it comes […]
An online Zoom class with NIFHS Volunteers. This class aims to increase awareness amongst society members of the benefits of our Look Up Service. What does it cover? How do […]