In a message dated 7/15/2007 1:19:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I have an idea that may mitigate to a small degree the sadness we all feel at this loss. How about taking dna samples from these bones that are being kept and adding the results into a database of people searching for their Irish ancestors in this way? It may also promote voluntary donation of dna data to help more find their families. I have not engaged in dna matching because finding my ancestors is still proving difficult. My Irish ancestors all came from somewhere else about 1820 so I'm stumped there. If I was more confident of it being useful for me I would do it. Any thoughts on this? Of course, the volunteers would need money for the testing. Donation of services in the national interest? Gifts from supporters? Kathleen i dont think you understand they are gone forever when they istall a road they do the road bed 10 ft below the road its whats also there thats needing to be saved this site could be of a scale of giza , le terne or pompey Jim Denning -Ygenealogist-MTgenealogist using Genetics to connect Chelsea,Ma.-Woburn,Ma.-denning-dennen-danin-dinan-dinihey-denningston-dinning- carlon-carroll-dever-cogan-malone-heslin-piscopo-mazzola-martini-farrell-mchug h-farley-grimes-lynch-doherty-SanDanto,Ita-Adargh,longford-Revere,Ma-Wintrop,M a.- and ever an growing list List owner of Irish-dna,Piscopo-l-Heslin-l,McHugh-l,Cogan-l-Machelsea-l,Ita-Frosinone-l,Mazzola-l-Duggan-l Project Manager of Chelsea Ma. Genetics Project,Denning&Variants Project-Farrell Genetics Project-The Cogan Project- the Duggan Project- County Longford Project-Frosinone Italy Project-Parramatta-Sydney Project- Hannibal MO-QuincyIL Project-Brighton-NewtonMA Project ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour