About

The Vase Institute is an independent research body specializing in archaeogenomics, genealogy, and demographic history. It produces work for publication and for private clients seeking research at a depth few operations are structured to provide.

The Institute's research spans roughly two thousand years of documented population history, with particular focus on colonial American settlement and frontier family history, including the demographic and social histories of underexamined American communities and lineages. Active areas include archaeogenomic analysis of living individuals against published ancient genome datasets, dynastic and lineage research from antiquity through the early modern period, and the documentary reconstruction of family and settlement history across multiple continents.

A defining feature of the work is the integration of disciplines that academic specialization tends to separate. Quantitative data, archival documentation, and historical scholarship are studied together because the questions the Institute pursues — the deep structure of population continuity and the documented descent of named individuals across centuries — cannot be answered within a single field.

The Institute accepts a small number of private commissions each year alongside its independent research output. Commissions are tailored individually based upon the question or lineage involved.