25-12-2021, 06:34 PM
I am glad to hear there are records. On the matter of confidentiality, of course with permission, or known publicly. Actually, I had in mind the future, there are currently people who display dna data on genealogical sites and these extrapolate to their relevant relations, ie y chromosomal data extrapolates to all the males in the line, mitochondrial dna to all the relevant relations, autosomal matches made as they are added, so some might even be found publicly even for those who were alive in our target dating, if they are accounted for in the tree. Of course i also foresee some clashes occurring eventually, some surprises to come with them i'm sure upon unravelling the conflicts. I figure that in the past (prior to dna testing being developed) these conservateur rubbings or dusty detritus would not have been thought as something to save, hoping they all save them now. As i said i do think the parchment database would be more useful first, but as Mark was saying, if human dna were found also, why not start going down that road to see what can be learned. I am not suggesting it would be a quick process, nor that anything definitive would be learned, but who knows what might be learned from it until it is investigated. Wladimir's interest in the yarn also seems like a worthwhile pursuit, even the species of the animal or plant, if it turns out not to be yarn, could be of value, and it would seem that very little would be needed to determine this.