Port Macquarie and Districts Family History Society's guest speaker Christine Woodlands will show how genetic genealogy answered two lingering questions after many years of traditional research.
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Christine will address the family history society's monthly meeting on Saturday (May 8).
Family history was Christine's retirement project but the power of genetic genealogy has become her focus.
Using genetic genealogy and traditional research, Christine has broken down "brick walls" in her own family research and enjoys working with others to solve their "DNA dilemmas".
She is a member of the DNA Research Group at the Society of Australian Genealogists and regularly presents both beginners and more advanced DNA sessions.
Christine is currently presenting a 16-week program at SAG, "Analysing your Ancestry DNA Results".
She uses social media and blogs to share the stories of her family.
Christine will join the family history society's meeting on Saturday to show how genetic genealogy answered two questions that lingered after many years of traditional research.
Her second great-grandparents, John Killion and Jane Feeney, married at the home of William Killion who was, at that time, the storekeeper at site of the Port Macquarie Museum.
John was an Irish "ticket of leave" man and Jane was a "Irish famine orphan".
* Were John and William closely related? After all, they were about the same age and had both come from Athlone in County Westmeath.
* Was Jane really an "orphan"? A register of letters received by the Immigration Department contains an 1850 entry from Jane Feeney of Sydney.
The register states that the correspondence was "respecting her daughter, Jane Feeney, an Immigrant per Digby". The letter has not survived.
The meeting starts at 1.30pm on Saturday at the MacAdams Centre in Lord Street.
This is the building in the carpark near the Port Macquarie pool and the Players Theatre.
Anybody is welcome to attend. Those interested should email president Diane Gillespie at president@pmdfhs.org.au or phone 0475 132 804.
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