Participants who would like to present oral or poster presentations at the meeting should provide a maximum 2500 characters abstract to the scientific committee (online abstract should be submitted via www.eswg2016.com, where the on-line abstract submission is available) prior to 30 April 2016.  We welcome abstracts relating to investigations involving kinship through genetic testing and its statistical analysis.  If you have an interesting short case for presentation or discussion (maximum 5 slides) please just provide us with a title and the presenter for inclusion in the workshop.