Ancestry offers discount for St Patricks Day
Family history website Ancestry is offering a 30% discount on its AncestryDNA kit in celebration of St Patrick’s Day.
The announcement:
In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day on Friday 17th March, from 12.01AM Monday 13th March, until 11:59PM AEDT Sunday 19th March, 2016 Ancestry is offering a 30% discount on the AncestryDNA kit – a saving of $45 – for you to make your own discoveries about your family heritage. Who knows; maybe you’ll have the luck of the Irish?
Irish-Australians have certainly left a distinct footprint on Australian history and culture, including Irish bush-ranger Ned Kelly, an icon of Australian resistance, as well as at least eight of our past Prime Ministers who claim Irish heritage.
In more recent times, the families of some of Australia’s most globally recognised talent have descendants hailing from the Emerald Isle.
Bindi Irwin’s second great-great-grandfather on her father’s side was a Dublin-born carpenter who immigrated to Australia in 1876
Nicole Kidman’s three times great-grandparents arrived in Sydney in January 1842, among thousands of farmhands who emigrated from Ireland ahead of the great famine
Tim Cahill, despite being born in Sydney to a Samoan mother and an English father, boasts Irish ancestry thanks to his paternal grandfather
Source: Ancestry
