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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 your genealogical goals. For more details and Booking - go to the DNA Summer School page
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 the world. We’ll be discussing some of the things we have found and explaining how we can all make similar finds in our own DNA […]
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 to use it simply and effectively. For more details and Booking - go to the DNA Summer School page
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 DNA Summer School page.
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 class you will also learn how to amalgamate your matches list from FTDNA and My Heritage and organise them by segment. For more details and […]
An online Zoom class with Anne Johnston We begin our summer school with some handy tips – how can DNA testing help with your family history research? This Class will look at how you can maximise success when analysing your DNA results and help you to fulfil your genealogical goals.
An online Zoom class with Anne Johnston This Class highlights the importance of traditional family tree research to DNA analysis and shows how you can achieve success in identifying your matches and extending your family tree.
An online Zoom class with Anne Johnston 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 to use it simply and effectively.. .
An online Zoom class with Martin McDowell Our second day of focusing on autosomal DNA comes to end with a more advanced session explaining how to infer that DNA matches are from a specific ancestor. Learning this technique can help you categorise your matches by analysing them and comparing them with those of other close relatives.
– an online Zoom class with Martin McDowell Y-DNA is a very powerful tool that can be used to break through a brickwall. This class will cover the different levels of testing available and will explain how to interpret and work with your Y-DNA results.
An online Zoom class with Guest Speaker Maurice Gleeson Y-DNA can be a particularly powerful tool when used in conjunction with extensive, documented lineages. Maurice’s early experience with Y-DNA helped him break through a Brick Wall on his Spierin ancestral line and travel back in time from 1800 to the late 1500s. Research at the University of Strathclyde […]
An online Zoom class with Martin McDowell Mitochondrial DNA can give you useful information about your family lines going back many hundreds – and even thousands – of years. This course will explain how it works and how it can be used to further your family history research.
An online Zoom class with Guest Speaker Mags Gaulden MT DNA can be a very useful tool in breaking through a very stubborn brickwall. This talk uses real examples to demonstrate how MT DNA can be used to confirm lines and add ancestors to your tree.
An online Zoom class with Martin McDowell GEDmatch offers many great tools to analyse your DNA. This class covers some of the basics and a few of the more advanced tools that can be used to help you work effectively with your match list.
An online Zoom class with Guest Speaker EJ Blom We’ll discuss the AutoKinship tree-building tool in this presentation. Using only shared DNA information between shared matches, AutoKinship is able to come up with several trees that provide clues on how everybody is related to each other. This approach works for matches from 23andme, MyHeritage, and GEDmatch. We’ll discuss […]