Ottawa Branch OGS October Meeting

Ottawa Branch will make another try this Saturday, 27 October at a twice aborted presentation

The Casualty Identification Program: Identifying the remains of unknown Canadian soldiers from the First World War: 

"The Casualty Identification Program aims to identify the newly discovered skeletal remains of Canadian service members. The process involves many disciplines, including: archaeology, history, forensic anthropology, genealogy and DNA analysis, amongst others. The talk will present one of the Program’s recent successful cases where the remains were buried in August 2017; one was successfully identified. The limits encountered by the Program will also be discussed as well as its practices for inconclusive cases in the hopes that identification may be possible in the future."

Speaker: Sarah Lockyer has a BSc in Anthropology from the Université de Montréal, an MSc in Forensic Archaeological Science from University College London and a PhD in Bioarchaeology from Bournemouth University. She is the Casualty Identification Coordinator for the Department of National Defence’s Directorate of History and Heritage and the Casualty Identification Program’s forensic anthropologist.

Gather at 1 pm for the meeting start at 1:30 pm at the City of Ottawa Archives, 100 Tallwood Drive (Room 115).

Preceded  at 10:30 am by Genealogy: Back to Basics - Ethics & Etiquette in Genealogy.

The Computer SIG will convene at 3 pm.