The Roots That Bind

05/15/2026

Mistakes in Genealogy happen.

05/15/2026

When learning genealogy, it is easy to make mistakes. Double checking your research or having a fellow genealogist review your research can help you avoid mistakes. Sometimes the mistakes are caused when records are transcribed wrong or assumptions are made in the evidence. Accept the mistakes and correct what you can as soon as you can.

05/15/2026

05/12/2026

Regard the work of others as hints...to possibly track and source documentation. Until then, it is not verified and could be incorrect. Resist the temptation to copy and paste another's tree...

More about this Insight:
👉 https://theancestorhunt.com/blog/genealogy-insight-the-tree-was-wrong-everyone-copied-it-anyway/

05/11/2026

News articles that recently appeared in The Enterprise. :-)

05/11/2026

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For nearly 70 years, nobody knew their names.

In January 1953, a park groundskeeper in Stanley Park in Vancouver, BC came across a small pile of abandoned belongings hidden in the brush — a woman’s coat, children’s hats, shoes, and a lunchbox. Beneath them lay the skeletal remains of two young boys, believed to be about 6 and 7 years old. Investigators determined the children had been killed with a hatchet found nearby.

The heartbreaking case became known across Canada as the “Babes in the Woods” mystery.

For decades, the boys’ identities remained unknown. Early forensic errors incorrectly suggested one of the children was female, adding confusion to an already difficult investigation. Over the years, the remains were publicly displayed for identification efforts and were eventually cremated, yet no answers came.

Everything changed in 2022.

Using DNA recovered from preserved bone fragments and advanced investigative genetic genealogy, authorities finally identified the children as brothers Derek D’Alton, born February 27, 1940, and David D’Alton, born June 24, 1941. Their mother was identified as Eileen Bousquet.

Police believe the boys' mother was likely responsible for their deaths. She is now deceased.

Rest in peace, Derek and David. You are remembered.

04/28/2026

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Arkansas executed Ledell Lee in 2017 for a crime that happened back in 1993. He never stopped insisting he was innocent.

Four years after his ex*****on, lawyers finally got permission to test the DNA on the murder weapon. It wasn't his.

The DNA on the bloody wooden club belonged to someone else. An unknown man.

The same DNA was also found on a bloody shirt wrapped around the weapon. Five out of six hairs from the crime scene were not his either.

His lawyers had begged for this testing before the ex*****on, but the request was denied. The state was rushing through ex*****ons because their lethal injection drugs were about to expire.

Now his sister and the Innocence Project are left with evidence that might have saved his life, but came too late.

The unknown DNA is now in a national database, waiting for a match that may never come.

04/07/2026

https://youtu.be/yYqpgv1DcM4?si=oAq_zkceUGZlq_K-

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