Convict Ancestry Australia – Descendants Research Group.
The following information for Forensic Historians, Genealogists, and Ancestry Research buffs was extracted directly from the Ancestry Projects Page on GEDmatch.com. Kristi Lami is a confirmed DNA member of the group. Kristi Lami is the host of “Are You Related to Morgan Plantagenet?” located in the same free section of their Global Intelligence based Ancestry Platform. Please contact them directly for information about joining. We can only answer questions about our own group. The hosts of their program will have to assist you with any ancestral verifications of your own DNA. If you do match their terms for inclusion, we recommend that you add your own GED kit match number for inclusion in the Ancestry Preservation Project helping to solve cold cases in health and for the medical welfare of all.
“I am a professional formally qualified genetic genealogist and historian I own and run a large 5k plus Australian Colonial Convict Descendants specialist research group on FB. We are not all necessarily related to each other but rather, related to those within the group with whom we share a convict ancestor and for some the sharing entails more than one convict in one family etc and thus we often share multiple ancestors via those convicts etc. The aim of the project is to now be able to have group members connect to each other within the group by DNA via this project. For many, the ‘links’ pre transportation are minimal for most descendants and a high proportion of convict descendants find little clues to being able to prove their convicts ancestral line. Utilising a specific DNA Ancestor project within our group will allow convicts descendants the links to their ancestral pasts that prove their lines. Most cannot do that with paper trails as the convicts themselves have little to no trail and scant at best. And allow those descendants to connect with each other, share their ancestral journies and to encourage and offer valid DNA proof of life to future descendants that until recent years has been extremely limited. Whilst convict records exist within Australian indexes and registries the information on our ancestors pre transportation has always been difficult to prove and thus being able to do so using our DNA within our group will solve many a puzzle for descendants and join us uniquely as one of many thousands of convict families descendants who by virtue of their servitude helped to build our wonderful country. Their stories can be told far more accurately both here and abroad and we can also connect to our cousins overseas where our ancestors hailed from during the convict era.”