Searching for the Lost of World War One
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Genealogy - The Miracle of Modern Science
The biggest project of that nature started in two thousand and nine, and it was the excavation of the mass graves from the battle of fromel. Aamazingly, 166 of those bodies, they've all been buried. But a hundred and 66 of them have not only been buried, but buried in named graves. They have been identified using some of these techniques that you mention, not least the ansampling. And once you got that list, then genealogists work forwards and back to establish who the living descendants of that list of names might be.
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