From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sat Aug 12 03:17:29 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7C9HTjb006342; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:17:29 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7C9HRf2016792 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:17:27 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k7C6c0FI030866 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 02:38:00 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k7C6c0o4030865 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 02:38:00 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k7C1WpFI030252 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:32:51 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7C4C72f023502 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:12:07 -0600 X-Envelope-From: drewsmithtpa@gmail.com Fri Aug 11 22:12:07 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7C4C7jb023493 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:12:07 -0600 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.231]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7C4C6Ls002788 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:12:06 -0600 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id t4so82434wxc for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:12:06 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:x-mimeole:thread-index:in-reply-to; b=pQd3dG/+o9OHwOeu+TsRDE/X4tTiuL2Tb6g7k35vgSn2OPkfqtrSfz0UksnamZg+nQO7dB+aiSqDScEb605m+J6dMwpmJi6fhiU/HgHFORiFQJSqjuw09mGnRNYM6hf0UDtpqP9hjoIBZEbcHJeF22fsR8X8Wemo193Kh2tFjP0= Received: by 10.70.70.7 with SMTP id s7mr1820753wxa; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:12:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Drew ( [70.126.18.234]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h18sm2503639wxd.2006.08.11.21.12.05; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:12:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Drew Smith" To: Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] INTERESTING MITROCHONDRIA SEARCH Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 00:12:05 -0400 Message-ID: <003101c6bdc5$797278f0$640fa8c0@Drew> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Thread-Index: Aca9wrLvuhrWpS6JRPSa1ofr9XMV6AAAJqlg In-Reply-To: <000201c6bdb7$23a63dc0$cb4eeb04@Desktop> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Shirley wrote: "I believe it was early last year that TLC or DISCOVERY had a good telecast on the remains of Czar Nicholas II and Alexandria. It was to make absolutely definite that their remains were what they were thought to be. The Duke of Kent (England) was a descendant of Queen Victoria as was Nicholas II [which made them cousins of some degree or other, but thru the maternal line of Victoria - maybe even Alexandria (I don't remember) - but the Duke participated in a DNA study which proved his ancestor was Victoria and that so was Nicholas - so this verified that Nicholas II of Russia, his remains were, indeed, what was thought to be. Then Nicholas II and Alexandria [and their children] were given a 'royal' funeral and subsequently given sainthood - I expect by the Russian Orthodox Church. This has been very sketchy, but I'm sure you can Google and find out more on this subject and TV program --- it really was very interesting!" You may be thinking of the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Philip), whose mitochondrial DNA was compared to that of the body thought to be Alexandra, the granddaughter of Victoria. Philip's maternal grandmother was Alexandra's sister, so we would expect Philip and Alexandra to have the same mitochondrial DNA. *** Shirley wrote: "There was also a similar televised program on PBS (I think it was PBS) that began with a 'nobody', but developed into and included 'celebrities' - I recall it included Whoopie Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey; the other 'celebs' or well-known people's name escape me now." That would be "African American Lives". Details are here: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/ Drew Smith