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Dennis J Yancey
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February 13, 2020 edited February 28, 2020 in Social Groups
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DNA Testing and locks of hair from deceased ancestors?

 

https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2012/06/03/dna-and-the-locks-of-hair/

 

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  • Nancy Caroline Gibson
    Nancy Caroline Gibson ✭
    February 28, 2020

    Yes ago when I was a curator at a DC museum (DAR Museum) we had the FBI test around a dozen strands of hair believed to be from George Washington. DNA testing was in its infancy at the time and the FBI thought it would be a fun project. Surprisingly, there is a lot of G. Washington's hair around. The hair came from different museums around the country such as Mount Vernon, Tudor Place, DAR Museum, and other Museums with Washington-related donations. They used a hair from a descendant of Washington's mother to compare, since GW had no direct descendants. In the end most of the hair was too deteriorated from microscopic bugs to get a result although several were in tact and may have likely been the real thing. Since DNA testing has come far since the human genome was encoded in the late 1990s/2000 they have again tested some of GW's hair. Google it-it is interesting.

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