There are a lot of geneologists that become confused at some point in their search when they can identify a person, but they can’t give a date as to when that person died. Similarly, there are also people who have graves with no name on them.
Coincidence? Not hardly.
Meet Todd Mathews from Livingston Tennessee – east of Nashville. His calling is to try and solve the mysteries of who is in these graves that have no names. The most famous of these is “Tent Girl” – a young woman who was wrapped up in a canvas and found by Matthews’ father-in-law in 1968.
Matthews became overtaken with the process of trying to figure out who this girl is. Simultaneously, he also discovered that many other people were trying to do the same thing around the country.
So he created the “Doe Network” – a website that makes available to the public information about people that have been found
Not to take away hope for those that have family or friends that are missing, the Doe Network’s sister site is the North American Missing Persons Network – dedicated to keep putting out information and updates on people who have been missing for years. And they have found a number of people still alive.
Nevertheless, The Doe Network is another tool one can use to find people who might not otherwise be found by any other method.
To read a CNN story on the network, click this link:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/25/doe.network.ap/index.html
Here is the link to the North American Missing Persons Network
