Familias: Book, R version and Courses

Courses

Information on courses, workshops and other events with topics typically related to the book "Relationship Inference with Familias and R" by Egeland, Kling, and Mostad, available from Elsevier, appear below. Please go to http://familias.no for free download of the program and documentation. Note that old courses often link to obsolete versions of software and documentation; please check updated versions. For relevant information in Spanish, check this blog.

• Workshop "Statistical Methods in Relatedness and Pedigree Analysis Based on STR Markers Using Different Softwares", Skopje, North Macedonia, online. February 20 -24.
• ISFG Summer School - Virtual Edition 2023. Workshop 4.1 and 4.2: Pedigree analysis in R. Teachers: Magnus Dehli Vigeland and Thore Egeland. Aug 30-31.

• Microsoft Teams Workshop "Kinship statistics using Familias", organised by ENFSI, Nov 17 - 18, 10 - 15 both days. Teacher: Thore Egeland.
• 1ST International symposium on DNA supported missing person and disaster victim identification. ICRC Delegation, Tbilisi, Georgia, October 31 - November 4, 2022. Teachers: Thore Egeland and Lourdes Prieto.
• What does it mean to be related? ISFG, Washington, USA, 2022. Thore Egeland.
• NORBIS course: Statistical methods in relatedness and pedigree analysis. June 13-17, Oslo. Teachers: Magnus Dehli Vigeland and Thore Egeland.

• Workshop "Kinship statistics using Familias", organised by ENFSI, Dec 14 - 15, 10 - 15 both days. Teacher: Thore Egeland.
• GHEP advanced exercises. Zoom discussion of exercises for 2021, 2021-10-19. Teacher: Thore Egeland.
• Relatedness inference with forensic applications. Thore Egeland. Invited talk. SJS lecture, Nordic-Baltic Biometrics Virtual Conference, Helsinki
• ISFG Summer School - Virtual Edition 2021. Workshop 7: Pedigree analysis in R. July 28 -30. Teachers: Magnus Dehli Vigeland and Thore Egeland.

• GHEP advanced exercises. Zoom discussion of exercises for 2020. Teachers: Thore Egeland and Magnus Dehli Vigeland.
• Triangular Cooperation Project. Four zoom sessions October 2020. Kinship part: program. Teachers: Thore Egeland, Mariana Herrera and Franco Marsico.
• NORBIS course Jan 6-10 2020 in Oslo: Statistical methods in relatedness and pedigree analysis. Teachers: Magnus Dehli Vigeland and Thore Egeland.

• Kinship statistics using Familias and FamLink. Pre-Congress Workshop FW2, ISFG Sep 10 2019, Prague. Teachers: Thore Egeland and Daniel Kling.
• Taller de Parentesco e Identificación (Familial Testing and Identification). Organiser Olga Barragán, International Committee of the Red Cross - Workshop. Thore Egeland and Lourdes Prieto, March 11-15, CD Mexico.

• How Genealogy lost its innocence. Thore Egeland, talk Norwegian Statistical Association, Oslo, Nov 15, 2018.
• Disaster Victim Identification – applications and statistics, with Thomas Parsons, Zlatan Bajunovic, Thore Egeland and Nádia Pinto (full day) Porto, Portugal,October 25-26, 2018.
• FamLink and FamLinkX, course, 3rd to 5th October 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark. Teachers: Thore Egeland and Daniel Kling.
• ISFG summer School 2018 Catanzaro, Calabria (Italia), September 3-4 2018: "Paternity and kinship testing including X-chromosomal markers". Teachers Thore Egeland and Daniel Kling.
• NORBIS course Jan 8-12 2018 in Oslo: Statistical methods in relatedness and pedigree analysis. Teachers: Magnus Dehli Vigeland and Thore Egeland.

• Workshop:Statistical Methods and Software for Forensic Genetics. Date and venue: Nov 13-15, Monterrey, México. Announcement in Spanish. Teacher: Thore Egeland.
• Video recorded talk by Thore Egeland: Relationship Inference with Familias and R. Oct 1, ISHI workshop, Seattle, WA, US.
• Workshop: Kinship analysis. Date and venue: Aug 29, ISFG 2017, Seoul, South Korea. Teachers: Thore Egeland and Klaas Slooten.
• Workshop: Familial Testing and Identification. Date and venue: March 15-17 2017, Nicosia, Cyprus. Teachers: Thore Egeland, Yarimar Ruiz, Lourdes Prieto. Course organiser: Yarimar Ruiz

• X-chromosomal markers and FamLinkX, Nov 23-24 2016, Buenos Aires, Teachers: Thore Egeland and Leonor Gusmão. Course Organiser: Andrea Colussi, SAGF.
• Statistical methods in genetics using R, Nov 16-19 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Teachers: Magnus Dehli Vigeland and Thore Egeland. Please contact course organiser Leonor Gusmão (email lgusmao at ipatimup.pt) for further information.
• EUROFORGEN-NoE Webinar Nov 9, 2016. Topic: Relationship Inference with Familias. Lecturer: Thore Egeland
• Workshop on evaluation of DNA evidence, EUROFORGEN-NoE course. Ljubljana, Oct 3-6 2016. Please contact Katja Drobnič, email katja.drobnic at policija.si, for further information. Teachers: Thore Egeland and others.
• Advanced Relationship Inference. Workshop Chair: Daniel Kling (Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division of Forensic Services). In connection with ISHI, International Symposium of Human Identification, Minn, USA, Sep 26-29, 2016.
• Euroforgen workshop program: Familial Testing and Identification. Rome Sep 22-23, 2016. EUROFORGEN-NoE course. Teachers: Thore Egeland and others.
• Workshop: Familial testing, X-files, FamLinkX. Leonor Gusmão, Nádia Pinto and Thore Egeland. Sep 6, 2016, XXI Jornadas del GHEP-ISFG, Bayahíbe (República Dominicana).
• Statistical Methods in Forensic Genetics. Bologna, Italy, June 6-7, 2016. EUROFORGEN-NoE course. Teachers: Thore Egeland and others
• Relationship inference with Familias and FamLink. Teacher: Daniel Kling (Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division of Forensic Services). In connection with CSFS Conference 2016, May 19, Montreal, Canada.
• Familial testing: Autosomal and X chromosomal markers. Teachers: Thore Egeland, Leonor Gusmão and Nádia Pinto. Organisers: Leonor Gusmão and Elizeu F. Carvalho. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, March 28 - April 1, 2016.
• Statistical methods in forensic genetics. Athens Feb 11-12, 2016. EUROFORGEN-NoE course. Teachers: Thore Egeland and others.