The Peter Robinson’s Settlers DNA Project (Ottawa)

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Date(s) - Thu, Apr 24, 2025
19:00 - 21:00

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Title: The Peter Robinson’s Settlers DNA Project

Speaker: Matt Barry

Details: This year marks the bicentennial anniversary of the second wave of Ontario settlers arriving from Ireland by way of the Peter Robinson scheme.  Owing to a flurry of planned commemoration events there is renewed interest in establishing genealogical connections to the immigrant families.  The 1823 and 1825 sailings in most cases preceded the Tithe Applotment surveys which today are among the few surviving records for the time period.  While records of families upon arrival in Ontario are fairly good, document records of the families leaving Ireland are rather poor.  Nevertheless, these immigrant families are well within the reach of autosomal DNA matching among today’s living descendants.  The Peter Robinson’s Settlers DNA project was established to use both autosomal and Y chromosome DNA to improve our understanding of the origins and histories of the families in Ireland.  

When: Thursday 24 Apr 2025 at 7pm

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