Talk:Somerton Man/Archive 2

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Archive 1

Archive 2

possibly useful links

Links which might be useful when I (or someone else) has more time. (Even before the recent breakthrough, a lot of the article was badly out of date).

(Yes there are all ABC: the good thing about ABC is that their articles tend to not disappear, and of course are not paywalled). Adpete (talk) 07:00, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/have-scholars-finally-identified-the-mysterious-somerton-man-180980540

Adpete (talk) 23:26, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

"Cousin"

I've changed the following section:

"Through investigative genetic genealogy, matches were found for descendants of two first cousins of Webb, both on the paternal and on the maternal side, indicating a high likelihood that the Somerton Man was either Webb or possibly a brother of his."

This was an understandable misreading of a poorly phrased segment in the original source: "The first cousin we found was on his paternal side and the second one we found was on the maternal side". (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-26/somerton-man-identified-melbourne-born-engineer-researcher-says/101272182) What is meant here is "cousin #1 was found on paternal side, cousin #2 was found on the maternal side". This is made clearer when you read a more detailed source which states "we managed to find a first cousin three times removed on his mother’s side"(https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/26/australia/australia-somerton-man-mystery-solved-claim-intl-hnk-dst/index.html)

Has the academic stated how close the family link was on the paternal side? There's obviously a big difference between a first cousin (common grandparent) and first cousin 3x removed (common great-great-great grandparent) MegaPowerTape (talk) 12:31, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Referring to the ABC programme on YouTube[1] from 20:45, Abbott located Stuart Webb and obtained DNA from his sister Cristy Webb who Abbott says (at 21:40) is a great-great niece of Carl ("Charlie") Webb and whose DNA is 396 centimorgans (whatever that means) distant. Does this help?Thincat (talk) 11:18, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Renaming to Charles Webb

The real name of the Somerton Man has been revealed to be Charles Webb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbdsWS1epsE Jhowie_Nitnek (talk) 09:38, 13 January 2023 (UTC)