{"id":3827,"date":"2013-06-12T14:13:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T14:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=3827"},"modified":"2021-10-21T12:41:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T16:41:19","slug":"baylor-university-anthropologists-use-dna-to-id-missing-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/baylor-university-anthropologists-use-dna-to-id-missing-ancestors.html","title":{"rendered":"Baylor University Anthropologists Use DNA to ID Missing Ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hat\u2019s off to Baylor University anthropologists who are undertaking an unusual project: identifying unknown persons buried along the Texas border.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3828\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3828\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-0612-2013-texas-unknown-burials.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3828\" title=\"photo-0612-2013-texas-unknown-burials\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-0612-2013-texas-unknown-burials.png\" alt=\"photo of Baylor University anthropologists investigating unmarked graves along Texas border\" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-0612-2013-texas-unknown-burials.png 800w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-0612-2013-texas-unknown-burials-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-0612-2013-texas-unknown-burials-461x300.png 461w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Dlcia Lopez, The Monitor (McAllen, Texas)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Using their forensic and DNA skills, the Baylor anthropologists are determining everything they can about each corpse they recover. The information generated by this effort is going into the Missing Migrant DNA Database to assist relatives in finding what became of their family members.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this effort to ID the bodies of these missing migrant ancestors, watch this video:<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lVOL_XBehcs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unmarked Graves along Texas Border<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lVOL_XBehcs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat\u2019s off to Baylor University anthropologists who are undertaking an unusual project: identifying unknown persons buried along the Texas border. Using their forensic and DNA skills, the Baylor anthropologists are determining everything they can about each corpse they recover. The information generated by this effort is going into the Missing Migrant DNA Database to assist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[4198,4195,5300,8,1129,4197,5356,4199,1083,4196,5451],"class_list":["post-3827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-anthropologists","tag-baylor-university","tag-database","tag-dna","tag-family","tag-forensic-science","tag-lopez","tag-missing-migrant-dna-database","tag-texas","tag-unmarked-graves","tag-video"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81013,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions\/81013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}