My contribution to this theme is one of some disappintment as my wife narrowly missed out on a TV appearance Some bones were dug up in France a few months ago. There were some ID metal tags around, and researchers analysed DNA from the bones . They then tried to trace living relatives of one soldier – Herbert Ernest Allcock , KIA October 1914. They found the granddaughter of his sister, whose DNA confirmed it was him (a direct MTDNA line, as with Richard III She was invited on TV on “Country File” at the re-burial in France on Sunday among all the centenary commemorations. However, the researchers failed to find my wife, who is the granddaughter of Herbert’s brother – so we missed out! There was an easy Y chromosome DNA ruote available, but the researchers I suppose couldnt find the two obstacles of emigration plus change of name My wife is proud - but sick as a parrot to miss out on the commemoration (though I did yesterday find the other great niece after a short FreeBMD search and phone book and was able to phone her, which was nice) Not helped by the fact that my wife’s Uncle emigrated to Australia and his silly prudish wife insisted on him changing his name from Allcock to Anderson, because of “homonymie fâcheuse” – so they couldn’t find him, though he’s still alive.. Moral : don’t change your name to suit your spouse. Steve Tanner HEMPSALL ONS 4001 ----Original message---- >From : goons@rootsweb.com Date : 11/11/2014 - 08:07 (UTC) To : goons@rootsweb.com Subject : [G] Lest we forget On this Remembrance Day I commemorate the life of Lance-Corporal Joseph Cree. I regard his as being perhaps an archetypal soldier's story. I pieced it together from his military record which I discovered in the National Archives of Australia website. He is not related to me and there may not be many others who now have cause to remember him. See "Whatever happened to our Joe?" at http://www.cree.name/archives/war.htm. MIke Spathaky Sydney Cree One-Name Study www.cree.name _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I believe a lot of the work to trace relatives in these cases is done by volunteers. For anyone interested more about how this work is done you might like to watch Michelle Leonard's excellent talk from Genetic Genealogy Ireland 2014 on "The Fromelles Genealogy Project: from WW1 Mass Grave to 21st Century Named Grave". http://youtu.be/wpAhtZSIAac Some of the audience were apparently moved to tears. The Fromelles Project are using both Y-DNA and mtDNA. You can read more about the project here: http://www.army.gov.au/Our-work/Unrecovered-War-Casualties-Army/Fromelles/Th e-Fromelles-project In case the link breaks here's a short URL: http://tinyurl.com/FromellesProject This paper by Jackie Leach Scully on the Fromelles Project "Naming the dead: DNA-based identification of historical remains as an act of care" is also well worth reading: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14636778.2014.946002#.VGNTevmsXv g In case the linke breaks here's a short URL: http://tinyurl.com/ScullyDNAID Debbie

I know some of the people who were involved in this project through my work, I gather about half of the remains that were recovered during the archeology were identified and all were given a proper burial in a war cemetary. I will ask if the two people I know would write a short piece to share with you, they were involved in the X-ray examinations that took place on the site, these were X-rays of both the remains and artefacts Chris Usher (studying Gilhome) On 12 November 2014 12:39, Debbie Kennett via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > I believe a lot of the work to trace relatives in these cases is done by > volunteers. > > For anyone interested more about how this work is done you might like to > watch Michelle Leonard's excellent talk from Genetic Genealogy Ireland 2014 > on "The Fromelles Genealogy Project: from WW1 Mass Grave to 21st Century > Named Grave". > > http://youtu.be/wpAhtZSIAac > > Some of the audience were apparently moved to tears. > > The Fromelles Project are using both Y-DNA and mtDNA. You can read more > about the project here: > > http://www.army.gov.au/Our-work/Unrecovered-War-Casualties-Army/Fromelles/Th > e-Fromelles-project > > In case the link breaks here's a short URL: > http://tinyurl.com/FromellesProject > > This paper by Jackie Leach Scully on the Fromelles Project "Naming the dead: > DNA-based identification of historical remains as an act of care" is also > well worth reading: > > http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14636778.2014.946002#.VGNTevmsXv > g > > In case the linke breaks here's a short URL: http://tinyurl.com/ScullyDNAID > > Debbie > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message