Thinking of buying an ancestral DNA test for yourself or someone else? Already have your results?

This free public workshop brings together 6 experts from the fields of ‘Genealogy and Genetics’ help you understand the science, ethics, social and privacy implications of commercial genetic genealogy tests.

Opening Remarks - Part 1 of 8
This workshops is opened with remarks by Danielle Manning, of the Archives of Ontario, who sets the stage for why it’s important for why as an archive they felt it was important to provide public access for this workshop and help increase public understanding of this quickly changing field.

Julia Creet envisioned the workshop, is the workshop organizer and the director of the documentary Data Mining the Deceased: Ancestry and the Business of Family. Her forthcoming book, the Genealogical Sublime, tells the histories of the world's largest genealogical databases. She teaches cultural memory studies in the Department of English at York.