Advancements in genetic genealogy and research are to be the focus of an international conference at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Leading experts in the fields from around the world will be among the speakers at the two-day event, to be hosted by the Strathclyde Institute for Genealogical Studies (SIGS).
The interdisciplinary conference will have a particular focus on the use of autosomal DNA and Y-DNA and the themes of bioarchaeology, genetics, and investigative genetic genealogy. The importance of these themes to genetic genealogy will be explored.
Subjects covered will include:
- ancestry in Northern Europe, from the Iron Age to today
- what genetic genealogy can reveal about Scottish noble families in the Anglo-Norman era, from the late 11th to late 13th centuries
- the ancestry of descendants of Scots who settled in Poland in the 16th to 19th centuries
- discrepancies between legal and biological kinship in western Europe between the 15th and 19th centuries.
This presentation stems from an international study which discovered that DNA from the hair of composer Ludwig van Beethoven had no male Y-chromosomal match with people alleged to have been his distant relatives.
The conference, titled Advancing Genetic Genealogy: How the Past is Informing the Present Through Revolutions in Genetic Research, will be held at Strathclyde on 7-8 June. It will be the first academic genetic genealogy conference to be held in the UK.
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