Archaeologists probe Irish migrants

Bio-archaeologists are examining some human bones excavated during the construction of the REM, which are said to mostly be from Irish potato famine migrants.

Interesting coda: “two of the individuals most likely didn’t come from Ireland. The remains will soon be sent to a lab in Trois-Rivières where the DNA will be sequenced in the hopes of finding living descendants.” Does that mean they won’t sequence DNA from the bones they assume to be Irish? Hey, some of us are still here!