🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE: DNA analysis was the key to unraveling the mystery of what happened to Russia's fallen royal family.
mtDNA. For women, that means they have the same mtDNA as their mother, grandmother and so-forth. Males also inherit the maternal mtDNA but do not pass it on to their offspring.
But questions still lingered. Where were the two missing Romanov children? And how could they further confirm the Tsar’s identity and convince skeptics?Forensic investigators also found a nephew of the Tsar living in Toronto, but he refused to cooperate. That meant genealogists had to dig deep into the Tsar’s family tree and find living relatives who also had maternal consanguinity with a shared female ancestor.. One was the Tsar’s great niece, and the second was a Duke in Scotland.
Investigators turned to the remains of the Tsar’s brother, George, and extracted a DNA sample. He also had the same distinction, which confirmed the skeleton in the mass grave
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