carbuff
Well-Known Member
I talked to Helen at LSU this morning by telephone. She says that they have been unable to locate identifiers of any kind for Arrilla Webb-Vaul. There was supposed to be a "clump of hair" that belonged to her, but when they located it, there was only a single strand, and they were unable to extract any DNA from it.
Furthermore, as far as I can tell, she has no children, no siblings, and her parents are likely deceased. I found a woman listed in Ancestry who might be her maternal aunt, but she is likely deceased too. The best that we can probably hope for is to locate any descendants of that maternal aunt, who would be able to provide a mtDNA-compatible FRS.
Arrilla's Doenet says DNA is available. Her Namus shows "Sample submitted--tests incomplete." So it looks like she either has or will have DNA soon.
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/743dfla.html
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/734