Understanding DNA tests

By Frank Neill

Understanding DNA ancestry tests will be explored at the Lower North Island Irish Interest Group’s annual meeting on 13 May.

The meeting will be held at the

Good fund raiser

St Ninians Church in Karori raised more than $2,000 for Cyclone Gabrielle relief efforts at its March garage sale.

Half the money raised has gone to Red Cross and the other half to a government group working in recovery and resilience.

Youth craft space

Karori Arts and Crafts and the Karori Library have formed a partnership to create a youth craft space at the library.

They will be seeking funding for this venture. There will be a survey for youth to have their say in what they want.

One workshop coming up is for Anime drawing.

Spanish language Day

Spanish Language Day will be celebrated at the Karori Library on Saturday 22 April.

The library will launch its Spanish language book collection at the event.

Johnsonville Community Hub, beginning with registration and tea/coffee at 9:30am.

The annual meeting will begin at 10am followed by a presentation entitled “So you’re thinking of taking a DNA test” by Lisa Duggan at 11am.

“Taking a DNA test is the easy part,” Lisa says.

“Then the results arrive and you stare at them wondering what they mean and how you are supposed to use them.

“I know because that was me when I first started using DNA,” region competed and all of them were in either one or both championship marches,” Ema says. The sport of marching “really becomes part of you. There are not many other activities where the simple act of walking reminds you of your sport,” she adds. she says. Her presentation will cover the different DNA tests available, how to sort and understand the matches and how to use the results to assist with research. Help desks will be available for Irish research and DNA queries.