Tag: Catoctin
A landmark study has opened a new avenue for Black Americans to trace their ancestry
Researchers have used DNA from the remains of 27 people who were buried at the Catoctin furnace in US to link them to people in the present. They also identified clusters of people with high levels of Catoctin ancestry in the southern United States. They added that they have identified tens of thousands of living descendants in a consumer genetics database.
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