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| Michelle Patient |
Biography
Australian genealogist and international speaker, Michelle Patient has qualifications in Chemistry & Geology, is a scientist, computer geek and DNA enthusiast. She belongs to many genealogy societies and currently volunteers on the Society of Australian Genealogists Education Committee and is the New Zealand Representative for the Guild of One Name Studies.
What do you do as a Day Job?
I am a genealogy speaker and Facebook administrator. I also do DNA consultations for individuals and for the Australian SBS TV series: Every Family has a Secret.
What do you do as a Night Job?
More of the same … 😊
How did you get into genealogy?
I grew up with a grandmother whose family stories, photographs and memorabilia sparked my life-long interest in genealogy. Curiosity both about the family I didn’t know as well as the family my grandmother told me about. It turned into a daily passion when working on Grandma's unidentified photographs which were given to me in the 1990's. In 1989, I began searching for my English half-sister, eventually finding her in 1993. In 2005 I reconnected my mother with her birth family.
Tell us about your involvement with genetic genealogy
Adding DNA research to my genealogy tool kit has increased the range of my methods, revealed skeletons and broken down many brick walls. I have been extracting genealogy evidence from DNA since 2015, have tested all three test types and have undertaken at-DNA tests at all five major companies, tested many relatives as well as people looking for unknown parentage.
What will you be talking about?
One of the largest cohorts of migrants to Australia and New Zealand were from Ireland, but for many of us connecting back our research to the Irish ancestors has been a challenge. The topic will give an overview of migration waves and patterns from Ireland into Australia and New Zealand and discuss a number of examples of Irish ancestry puzzles and the role DNA has had in resolving them.
Where can people get more information about you and the work you do?
https://www.facebook.com/michelle.patient
https://www.facebook.com/groups/NZDNAUsersGroup/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/DNADetectivesDownUnder/
https://soundcloud.com/auckland-libraries/dna-heritage-cut
These lectures are sponsored by FamilyTreeDNA and organised by volunteers from ISOGG (International Society of Genetic Genealogy).
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