The Maine Gaeltacht Project (Deb Sullivan Gellerson & Margaret Feeney LaCombe)

This lecture will give an overview of the Maine Irish Heritage Center (MIHC) and explain how to run a successful autosomal DNA project (as opposed to a Y-DNA project) using the DNA project at the Center as an example. The MIHC has been using Family Finder tests to successfully reconnect broken family links due to emigration, and actively tests people in Ireland as well as in the United States but this model can work for any population.
Presenters:
Deb Gellerson, MIHCMaureen Norris Coyne, MIHC
& Margaret LaCombe, MIHC
Deborah Sullivan Gellerson is a Board Member of the Maine Irish Heritage Center, a genealogist from Portland, Maine, an Irish citizen via her mom, and an organizer and volunteer for many local organizations.
Margaret Feeney LaCombe is a genealogist who has been researching her own family roots and the Irish of Maine for over 15 years, and started the Center's DNA project along with Maureen Coyne Norris, and created and maintains the Center's genealogy database with help from the Center's other genealogists like Deb Gellerson, author Matthew Barker, Krista Heatley Ozyazgan, Maureen Coyne Norris and Patricia McBride Flood.
Maureen Coyne Norris is one of the founders of the Maine Irish Heritage Center and our liaison to Centers in Ireland and the US.
This lecture was presented at Genetic Genealogy Ireland 2015. Please note that these GGI2015 videos are copyrighted to the presenter and should only be used for personal study. They are not to be used for any other purpose without the presenter's express permission. Also, please note that because this is a rapidly advancing field, the content may quickly become outdated.
The lectures were sponsored by FamilyTreeDNA (at www.ftdna.com) and organised by Maurice Gleeson, a volunteer from ISOGG (International Society of Genetic Genealogy at www.isogg.org).