The Strathclyde Institute for Genealogical Studies (SIGS) will hold an international academic genetic genealogy conference in Scotland at the University of Strathclyde (hybrid access available) of the 7th and 8th of June 2024.  

The ‘Advancing Genetic Genealogy: How the Past Is Informing the Present Through Revolutions in Genetic Research’  is the first academic genetic genealogy conference to be held in Great Britain. 

The conference will be interdisciplinary in nature, with a particular focus on the themes of autosomal DNA and Y-DNA, as well as on bioarchaeology, genetics, and investigative genetic genealogy, emphasising their importance and value to the field of genetic genealogy. 

Guest speakers include:

·       Dr Tom Booth – Francis Crick Institute

·       Michelle Leonard – Genes & Genealogy and the Fromelles Genealogy Project

·       Debbie Kennett – University College London

·       Jonny Perl – DNA Painter

·       Dr Karen Miga – The Miga Lab at University of California Santa Cruz and the T2T Consortium

·       Dr Pontus Skoglund – Ancient Genomics lab at Francis Crick Institute

·       Peter Sjölund – Släkt & DNA

The conference is sponsored by Ancestry and the Halsted Trust whose support has been instrumental in bringing this event to fruition. 

Registration is now open and places can be booked online by visiting https://www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/centreforlifelonglearning/genealogy/advancinggeneticgenealogy/.