The lost colony of Roanoake

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Researchers seek Lost Colony descendants

By Miller Resor

Rocky Mount Telegram

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Researchers hope genetic testing will connect the dots of a 420-year-old mystery that has lingered since England's first attempt to colonize North America.

In 1587, a group of English colonists on Roanoke Island disappeared, leaving behind a single clue – the word "CROATAN" carved into a tree.

The Croatan were a group of American Indians who lived near Roanoke Island.

The Lost Colony Center for Science and Research, the pre-eminent group investigating the Lost Colony, will hold a symposium the second weekend of September to present recent findings and collect DNA samples officials hope will eventually solve one of America's oldest mysteries.

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Search for 'Lost Colony' continues centuries after group disappeared

5 hours ago

GREAT DISMAL SWAMP, N.C. - After trudging for two hours through thick vegetation to a blurry mark found on Google Earth, George Ray started making up a song: "If you're lost, I'll find you tomorrow," he sang in a thick Southern drawl.

Or, perhaps, he'll find you four centuries later.

Ray is one of the many amateur archeologists entranced by the Lost Colony - the 117 English settlers who disappeared from North Carolina's Outer Banks in the late 1500s, having left behind only a single clue to their fate. In all the years since, no one has found much of anything else.

But there have long been stories told about a rotting boat in the Great Dismal Swamp, a national wildlife refuge that straddles North Carolina's border with Virginia. Ray's colleagues think the colonists may have passed through the swamp after leaving Roanoke Island. They studied satellite images until they found something that looked like a boat, then set out to find it.

"We're not looking for gold," Ray said. "We're looking for history."

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[capnwilliam]

I couldn't get either of these articles to come up.

CApt. William

[casketchris]

if they want to know what happended to them all they have to do is watch "Storm of the Century" (1999)