Welsh-Norman & Irish Interactions Through The Past (Brian Swann)
Channel: Genetic Genealogy Ireland
Date: 2015-12-12

Wales is the closest part of mainland Britain to Ireland, so migration across the Irish Sea to Wales in both directions has occurred throughout recorded history.  Welsh family history is unique, but in some respects has parallels to Irish family history.  These unique features of Welsh family history will be reviewed.  The migration of Anglo-Norman families into Ireland and then later waves of migration via plantation settlements has given rise to a whole range of surnames in Ireland whose origins are now being investigated by the combination of careful Y-DNA analysis and family reconstructions.

Brian Swann worked in the pharmaceutical industry most of his working life (1971-2011) and began family history in 1967.  He is a founder member of the Norfolk, Dyfed and West Surrey Family History Societies, a member of the Society of Genealogists since 1972 and a member of ISOGG since 2006.  In 2009 he was instrumental in helping persuade FTDNA to sponsor a vastly enlarged DNA Area at Who Do You Think You Are at London, Olympia, which has contributed to the growth in awareness of the power of combining DNA and documentary research in the 21st century.  His wife is Welsh, and he has a long-standing interest in the history of Wales, with special affinities to Glamorganshire and West Wales.

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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).