Please Pass This On

I hoping that someone here can pass this on 

"[size=36]A tool to help identify migrants who died in South and West Texas[/size]





"[size=32]The project is called[/size] I Have a Name/Yo Tengo Nombre[size=32], and it was recently launched by[/size] The Texas Observer[size=32]. The searchable, bilingual visual database lets people scour personal items of unidentified dead people found with personal items in Brooks County, Texas. The South Texas area is among the most treacherous places for those who immigrate illegally—[/size][size=32]it’s been dubbed “Death Valley” for migrants[/size] [size=32]and is considered especially dangerous because of its scorching temperatures and inhospitable conditions.[/size]
[size=32]The database is the brainchild of two forensic anthropologists who have spent the last several years exhuming the bodies of people buried in mass graves after dying during their migration and returning them to their family members. One of them, Baylor University’s Lori Baker, exposed irregularities in the burials of such people, including burying people in trash bags and collecting money for DNA investigations of the remains despite no evidence that the investigations ever took place.[/size]
[size=32]Now Baker and her colleagues have set up a database of items like rosaries, backpacks and torn shirts for family members and friends of missing people to scour through. So far, they’ve photographed personal items from approximately 80 cases. People who identify the items can flag a match; then the cases will be confirmed through DNA testing or dental records.[/size]
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Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-database-helps-families-id-people-who-died-crossing-border-180961482/#KQ88O29MB8o5JIpW.99

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There are pics in the Smithsonian  link of belongings.

Is this in facebook? That is how people here look for people who have been kidnapped or are sick in a hospital with no known relatives.

A day in the life of a rancher.

“This is where I found him,” 
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.texasmonthly.com/politics/the-desert-of-the-dead/amp/

brigitte wrote:Is this in facebook? That is how people here look for people who have been kidnapped or are sick in a hospital with no known relatives.

This is not Facebook refer to the links I provided. Yotengonombre see first post.

https://www.yotengonombre.com

Here you go Bridgette

https://www.yotengonombre.com/about

This will tell what , how etc

[size=36]for Arizona[/size]
[size=36]http://www.colibricenter.org[/size]

Thanks , well done sites.. ..Good for people who have someone who can help them navigate and research but it is over the head of most families of migrants I know.