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I managed to get registered today for The 13th Annual International Conference on Genetic Genealogy held each year by Family Tree DNA and I’ll be going to Houston from November 10 to 12 to attend. This is a tough one to get into (unless you are a speaker) as registration is only open to FTDNA group administrators, which I am not. But when Bennett Greenspan attended my Double Match Triangulator workshop at the IAJGS Conference in July, and I mentioned I’d be interested in attending his November Conference, I was allowed this late registration as a guest.
This will be my first time at this conference. It should be great for anyone like me who is interested in advanced DNA analysis. I am not speaking so I will be able to take everything in and enjoy. Only 5 speakers are currently slated. I’m really looking forward to hearing talks by Jim Bartlett and Roberta Estes and meeting both of them in person for the first time. It will also be a pleasure to once again meet up with Judy Russell and Maurice Gleeson and hear them speak. The other person listed is Matt Dexter who I’m not familiar with but is a an adoptee and autosomal expert who I’m sure will also be excellent.
Some of the presentations from the last 2 conferences are available at SlideShare. As Roberta Estes recently wrote: “This conference is one I’ve literally never missed! It’s always wonderful.” Jennifer Zinck shared the extensive set of notes she wrote about last year’s conference: Saturday and Sunday. There was another review done by Moises Garza. The ISOGG has a full page about the conference with links to posts about past conferences.
It’s been quite a year for me and genealogy conferences. This will be my 4th one this year. First was RootsTech in Salt Lake City in February. Then was IAJGS in Orlando in July. I just got back from GCGS in Halifax. And next is Houston. If you count the Brigham Young University Family History Technology Workshop which was in Provo, Utah the day before RootsTech, then that’s 5.
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