[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] The new buzz about finding Jesus' remains

[shoning at att.net]

Good observation, Karl.  Thanks.
George 

 
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Karl Krueger <dabookk54 at yahoo.com>
> Probably many of you had heard of this new claim by Titanic producer John 
> Cameron that they "think" they have found the remains of Jesus and his wife Mary 
> and a child Judah along with other family members in a tomb near Jerusalem. 
> Fortunately others more qualified to critique this claim have given some sound 
> rationale why this is likely coming to the wrong conclusion as provided in the 
> article linked below.
>   http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54446
>    
>   How many "inexperienced" genealogists have come to the wrong conclusion 
> thinking because a name matches one of their ancestors from the right place that 
> this must be their relative. From the sounds of it Cameron's team is making this 
> mistake. Jesus, Joseph and Mary were very common names back then. The 
> statistical probability is high that you will find these three names in a family 
> many times within the population of Jerusalem of that time.
>    
>   I just thought it would be nice to point out another case of when you want to 
> prove a certain point in your genealogical research, that you can be mislead by 
> jumping to conclusions too quickly. Many of us have done that in our 
> genealogical research and it seems it seems this group of anti-Christ wanna-be 
> archeaologists is doing the same trying to benefit from the wake of the Da Vinci 
> Code.
> 
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