Tiny Tip Shoes Mystery Of Titanic

New DNA evidence and a shoe store with a child in a drawer for decades has solved the mystery of Titanic's Unknown Child, who is buried in Halifax.

Sidney Leslie Goodwin, 19 months, drowned when the ship "unsinkable" sank off the Newfoundland coast, 14 April 1912. With him was his mother, father and five older siblings, all third-class passengers on their way to a new life in Niagara Falls, NY

"It was the shoe of that point," said Ryan Parr genetics researcher, vice president of Mitomics Inc in Thunder Bay.

Shoes, stored in a box, and then given to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, it would be too large to be Viljam Eino Panula, 13-month-old Finnish boy who drowned in his parents.keen sandal

Thanks to genetic technology and old samples of teeth and bones exhumed in 2001, Martin Parr and others had thought was buried Panula the youngest son of this tombstone in Fairview Lawn Cemetery. But a review of this small leather shoe sent the U.S. team Canada and the return of samples of mitochondrial DNA.

Samples initially narrowed the selection Panula and Goodwin. This time, the U.S. Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory in Maryland, has found another sign that noted a 98 percent certainty that Goodwin.

The child's aunt was a grandmother of Carol Goodwin, and Carol grew up listening to family stories Goodwin died on the Titanic.

Titanic opted for New York after the SS was made possible for the largest, 16 years, Lillian, to join them. They went to the third class of the second to save money "and give a faster start when they arrived," he said recently at his home in Wisconsin.

A child advocate for retirement, Goodwin, 77, lost tomb of his first cousin once removed, as always, is only Sidney Leslie, but all 50 children died during the trip.

Sidney's body, he said, was found floating with no jacket, five days after the liner struck an iceberg. Rescuers were so impressed they decided to bring the body ashore and buried him to remember the children whose bodies were able to recover.

"The grass has grown around the stone," he said.

Goodwin, who wrote a book on the Titanic the unknown child and one in the family of Fred and Augusta Goodwin sentenced, said that other accounts have described the collapse of the family on the bridge, saying: "The mother did not want to parent. children would not let the parents. "