The Virginian-Pilot has a fascinating series of articles on the forensic detection being done on a group of newly-discovered skeletons from the earliest fatalities at the Jamestown colony, to include attempting to identify them by name. It's interspersed with entries from the colonists' diaries as they got off the ships and began to drop like flies.
The science and the history together make for a riveting read.
My husband reminds me that he has an ancestor from the Jamestown colony:
-"Her name was Elizabeth. They named Elizabethtown after her."
--"What about the queen?"
-"I don't know. They might've named the queen after her too."
What about the Queen? Well the whole colony was named for her so my vote is to let your husband's ancestor have Elizabethtown.
Thanks for the links to the articles. I'm a sucker for this stuff.
Where are all the white protestors (like your hubby could be) (or maybe I will, just for sh*ts and giggles) demanding that the gubment and scientists release and return their sacred forefather's bones to them for proper burial?
Free the honkey Jamestown bone boy!
Posted by: tree hugging sister at November 29, 2006 10:14 AMThe forensics guy was thanking God he didn't have to deal with the PC bullshit.
"Free the honkey Jamestown bone boy!"
Geez, that cracked me up.
Glad you enjoyed it, Retread. I love these sorts of stories, and this was a particularly good one.
they won't do it Tree Lady, I've already tried..
I have a Gr.Gr. Uncle buried in Richmond, and they won't let us dig him up, because they buried them two to the grave, and his partner's family no longer
admits they were confederates...or else they are all gone.