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Ten matches in DNA research into primal Oldenzaal

In the town of Oldenzaal in the Netherlands, 30,000 skeletons were dug up during an archaeological dig around an old church.  Archaeologists wondered if any modern Oldenzaalers would be related to any of these buried people.  Comparison of Y-DNA from the skeletons and 128 volunteers yielded 10 matches.  Click here to read a translated version of this story.  One of our members told me this link does not take him to a translated version, so you may have to click on the translate button which should appear in the upper right hand corner of the story.

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