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00:00Have you ever thought about taking a DNA test?
00:08Well, what if you gathered all your friends and all your neighbours
00:12and took one together?
00:16What would you find?
00:20What if you have unknown royal ancestors?
00:26Or you are not the ethnicity you think you are?
00:31What if that person next door you've known for years
00:34is actually your cousin?
00:38How well do you know your neighbours?
00:42The secrets to our past lie within all of us,
00:45hidden in our genetic code.
00:49For the first time ever,
00:50four Australian towns are being offered mass DNA tests,
00:53tests that will unveil wild hidden chapters in our history.
00:57I've got your DNA results back.
00:58Oh my goodness, what?
01:01He was quite a well-known criminal.
01:02What a story.
01:03It's incredible.
01:04We actually have some of his own words.
01:07Really?
01:08And we believe that that is your granddad.
01:11That's amazing. It really is.
01:12The extraordinary results reveal us and our nation as never seen before.
01:19All of you have Mediterranean DNA.
01:23Yes!
01:24Indian ethnicity African DNA.
01:27I thought that I was French.
01:31How does the story of each town or neighbourhood fit into the wider history of the nation?
01:37You all have convict ancestry.
01:41It'll change how you see Australia.
01:44It'll change how you see yourself.
01:46This is overwhelming.
01:48It's wonderful.
01:50I'm Mark Fennell.
01:51We are pushing the boundaries of science to unlock the past.
01:54And today, we're actually going to give you your results.
01:57All right, shall we find out together?
01:59Yes!
02:00All right, let's do it.
02:02Ordinary towns with extraordinary discoveries that reveal who we are as a nation.
02:09This is the secret DNA of us.
02:30So, I'm saying all right now, we are Rajang and say Daniel.
02:31Thank you so much.
02:32All right.
02:33We've agreed to apply our infancy…
02:34That's all right.
02:36Can we gather together a written subject and your mind?
02:38I really believe that you've loved it.
02:39Please ask you.
02:40It's fun so I feels like to be prepared nice but it's hard to know.
02:41You've left the direction and there is not so we had done.
02:42You're from myth conquer and bullish.
02:43I know that looking into this way that you watched Vladimir dynasty,
02:45that has believed to be physically and cultures,
02:47it is very complicated to TCNONE.
02:49We're in our 2011 up coisa.
02:51We've been from sansthetics here afterwards,
02:53so we're back, Batang and I started to put the السutely,
02:54together and therefore evaluations.
02:55I think it's pretty poor.