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Maeve	Posted on Aug 6 2007, 10:28 AM
	I saw the documentary where they did all the investigations and decided it was the Finnish child. Apparently there were a couple of other candidates as well but ages didn't match(based on the teeth) They didn't have much of the body to work with and very few of the bodies buried in that cematary in Halifax still exist as it turns out that the ground is so wet that they have almost completely dissolved. They were hoping to test and identify a couple of other bodies as well but could find nothing to take a DNA sample from. Isn't it great that modern science can be used to identify even one victim from so long ago?
loren1	Posted on Aug 3 2007, 01:53 PM
	Wow!!! After all these years another Titanic question answered. I guess it's never to late. It's stil a wonder when something like this happens.
Andy in West Oz	Posted on Aug 2 2007, 01:10 AM
	http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22176005-23109,00.html CANADIAN researchers have positively identified the remains of a young child who died when the RMS Titanic sank in 1912 The remains belong to a 19-month-old English boy named Sidney Leslie Goodwin who died with his family as they were setting out for a new life in Niagara Falls, New York, researchers said. Goodwin's body was found floating in the waters of the North Atlantic six days after the luxury liner sank on April 15, 1912, killing 1503 passengers and crew. Many of the Titanic victims are buried in a cemetery in Halifax, on Canada's eastern coast. In 2002 researchers mistakenly identified the baby as 13-month-old Eino Viljami Panula, who they said was travelling in third class to the United States with his mother and four brothers when they all perished. His DNA matched to living family members in Finland who travelled to his grave dedicated to ``the unknown child'' in Halifax for an elaborate ceremony. "There was a lot of confusion because we thought we had it right, but more information came to light and we did more research,'' said Ryan Parr, lead researcher in the case at Lakehead University in Ontario. "Now it looks like it is the Goodwin child.'' Based on the size of the child's teeth, scientists had been able to narrow the possible candidates to children about one year old, or younger. "Based on the (original) DNA testing, it had to be either the Goodwin child or the Panula child and so we said, 'OK, it must be the (younger) Panula child,''' Mr Parr said. Later, a pair of shoes showed up that had been found on the child's body, causing the scientists to doubt their original conclusions. Toronto's Bata shoe museum analysed the shoes, at their request, and said they were for an older child, Mr Parr said. Further DNA testing found that the child's HVS1, a type of mitochondria DNA molecule, did not match the Panula family. "Many Europeans have DNA sequences that are very, very close, if not the same. And that was the case with these two (children); they were identical for the section that we had looked at,'' Mr Parr said. "When we expanded our search, it was still very, very close, but it looks more like it is the Goodwin child.'' According to reports, the Goodwin family has been informed of the discovery.

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