So, I am digging around and came across a picture of a woman...a recreation of the first people of Britain...called Beaker People. And a likeness of my ex-wife is staring at me...it’s an artist rendering. The ex is Irish on both sides...maternal from the countryside outside of Dublin and paternal from the Hook peninsula. It wasn’t an exact likeness, but close enough to give me a start...including the copper colored hair. Another weird thing is a friend who recently passed away had the same coloring of hair and skin...difference is the friend was 5 foot nothing and the ex is 5’8”. They both sang very well and started in churches. They even had the same small birth marks on their bodies, but in different places. Really strange to see such striking similarities. The only other difference I found was Debby was highly allergic to cats and Barb often had neighborhood cats laying all over her. A year or so after she had died I drove by Barb’s house, and one of the cats she often fussed over and let in the house was laying under a bush in the yard...waiting.

"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN

So I just looked up the Beaker folk because of what you said since I've never heard of them. Found an interesting article about a skeleton they found in a grave in Scotland that they've named Ava. The person who did the facial reconstruction gave her red hair and blue eyes. But after a DNA study, she was given brown hair and eyes. It's odd because the beginning of the article says that they migrated from the Iberian Peninsula. If that is the case one would think that it should have been obvious that she'd have had dark hair and eyes.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/02/08/story-of-ava/

Yup, saw the original article, but didn’t see the update. Interesting that the DNA changed...or were they publishing before the actual analysis? Sort of puts their entire research at risk.

"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN

I guess they weren't really doing the DNA at first. I don't know. Or maybe they didn't expect what the DNA showed.

A lot of folks in that time frame herded and tended animals. They tended to be migratory as a result. One of my GrGrandfathers, for example, was a drover/cattle agent in the early to late 19th century. He spent a great deal of time out west, often staying in Drovers cottages. He worked until he got too old to sit a saddle for 8 to 12 hours a day, and moved to Baltimore, near the stockyards with his wife and family.

"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN

My brothers wife looks like Sharon Osborne. I mentioned this and he said they all look alike over there. At that look I'm sure he meant.

Tennessee Dave

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My nieces husband doesn’t look anything like her or Ozzie. That might not be a racist comment, but it is ignorant.

https://www.listal.com/list/top-10-hottest-brits

"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN

Forgot what I started to say...anyway...following facial characteristics in the modern world is difficult and sometimes perplexing. Knew a woman in Nam In 1967-68 who obviously had Montagnard characteristics, but no known connection within a couple of generations. Montagnard were Vietnamese mountain people. Their noses were broader as a result of the altitude they lived in. She was very attractive and tall for a Vietnamese man or woman.

"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN

Heard of them. I can see that.

Tennessee Dave

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Here is something weird/odd/unusual

My GrgrGrandfather was a Drover/Cattle Agent (Hunter Robinson 1821-1891) who worked between Iowa and Baltimore, after the stockyards opened, but was originally from southwestern Pennsylvania. Doing family research one day there was a woman who claimed him as a grgr grandfather also. I didn’t know her. She lived near what used to be a Drovers Cottage in what today would be West Virginia near the Ohio border. I came on line and introduced myself...she deleted her account without responding. Naturally, I hadn’t bothered to take her information since she was seeking information and haven’t heard from her in over a decade...she immediately deleted her account and all information including her postings. Last time I checked/visited what remained of the cottage was still there.

Another oddity is that Hunter was born in a time frame when first born were named from the surname of the female...and that hasn’t been a help in researching the family either.

"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN