illuminator newsletter #7

Apr 30, 2021

BREAKING

30 April 2021

New Stenton paper. For the first time, Canadians have been able to name a Franklin Expedition sailor thru DNA testing of bones. John Gregory, engineer on HMS Erebus, has been "confidently" identified as being at the famous 'Boat Place' on King William Island.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/abs/dna-identification-of-a-sailor-from-the-1845-franklin-northwest-passage-expedition/021C34FB252998D1766A8F978072EE02

Canadian newspaper talks to the Gregory descendant, in South Africa, about learning that his DNA had identified his 3x great grandfather's skeleton: “I literally needed to hold on to my seat when I was reading.”

https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ts/news/canada/2021/05/04/kiss-baby-for-me-first-use-of-dna-to-link-franklin-expedition-sailor-to-descendant.html

Russell Potter article on the John Gregory identification.

https://visionsnorth.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-well-worn-skull.html

SINCE THE LAST ISSUE

17 March 2021

New illuminator guide: A Franklin Expedition Guide to Greenwich’s Polar Worlds.

https://www.illuminator.blog/p/polar-worlds.html