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« on: Friday 19 June 15 23:20 BST (UK) »
Hi and so glad you are still out there.
The Fromelles Association has a coordinated team of researchers here and overseas and we are actively working on all the soldiers who proved to have a brick wall.
we know that a Y dna donor was found by the army some time ago with no result.We are looking for the female line Mt dna, and would also like to contact the Y side. We do know that of the 144 soldiers identified so far, most needed both Y and Mt dna to be positive, explained as 'although a weak positive is there, not sufficient for an ID, but two weak responses makes it sufficient'.
Have gone back to the UK Cumbria area for soldier's mother's sisters. (Margaret Lowther and 4 sisters) have an ancestry tree and a dna chart prepared.
Like you, I feel there is too much info to write here, but happy if you can contact me through our Ancestry tree site "Fromelles Soldiers" if you put in the soldiers name, that should be one of the public trees with his name, and we could go from there. The Fromelles Association has a face book page and you can also make contact via our coordinator the president Royce Atkinson.
kindest regards
Marg