{"id":15361,"date":"2011-11-24T23:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=15361"},"modified":"2021-03-15T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:22:34","slug":"seventh-international-family-tree-dna-conference-for-group-administrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15361","title":{"rendered":"Seventh International Family Tree DNA Conference for Group Administrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the Seventh International Family Tree DNA Conference for Group Administrators which was held on 05 November 2011 &#8211; 06 November 2011. I am an administrator for five surname projects at Family Tree DNA:\u00a0 Busi, Czwalga\/Swalga, Danko, Dziurzynski, and Niedzialkowski, and I hoped to learn more about the state of the art in the use of DNA for genealogical purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The program was as follows:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Saturday, 05 November 2011<\/span><br \/>\n9:00 AM &#8211; Welcome (Bennett Greenspan &amp; Max Blankfeld)<br \/>\n9:30 AM &#8211; Genographic Project Update: News from the Field (Spencer Wells, PhD)<br \/>\n10:30 AM &#8211; Genetic Genealogy Q&amp;A (Bruce Walsh PhD)<br \/>\n11:15 AM &#8211; Breakout Sessions<br \/>\nPhasing &amp; Other Analysis of Family Finder Results (David Pike)<br \/>\nWalk through the Y Update (Thomas Krahn)<br \/>\n2:00 PM &#8211; The Armenian DNA Project (Peter Hrechdakian)<br \/>\n2:45 PM &#8211; One Step Webpages Part 1: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools (Stephen Morse, PhD)<br \/>\n4:00 PM &#8211; Q&amp;A Panel<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, 06 November 2011<br \/>\n8:00 AM &#8211; ISOGG (International Society of Genetic Genealogy) Meeting (FTDNA Chapter)<br \/>\n9:00 AM &#8211; IT Roadmap 2011: The Year in Review and Looking Ahead (Elliott Greenspan)<br \/>\n9:45 AM &#8211; Neandertals in our Midst: Just How Modern is our Genome? (Michael Hammer, PhD)<br \/>\n10:45 AM &#8211; DNA of the Three Collas (Peter Biggins &amp; Thomas Roderick)<br \/>\n11:30 AM &#8211; One Step Webpages Part II: A Hodgepodge of Lesser Known Gems (Stephen Morse, PhD)<br \/>\n2:00 PM &#8211; DNA Tests and the Law &#8211; Potential Use of Ancestry Tests for Immigration (Jessica Roberts, JD)<br \/>\n2:45 PM &#8211; An Adoptee&#8217;s Journey to His Ancestral Surname (Richard Hill, MBA)<br \/>\n3:45 PM &#8211; Closing Panel<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the Seventh International Family Tree DNA Conference for Group Administrators which was held on 05 November 2011 &#8211; 06 November 2011. I am an administrator for five surname projects at Family Tree DNA:\u00a0 Busi, Czwalga\/Swalga, Danko, Dziurzynski, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15361\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[334,177,333],"class_list":["post-15361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-conferences","tag-dna","tag-ftdna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-3ZL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22678,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361\/revisions\/22678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}