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>This is largely incorrect.  What was found was NOT a French-American
>cemetary, but a potter's field containing burials from a wide range of
>ethnicities, and a few medical-school ex-specimens as well, interred
>above a few of the burials.  New burial sites were NOT set up; the
>intention was for the remains to eventually be reinterred in a mass
>grave.  The bodies have never been released for study, and they were
>never removed in a single evening by parties unknown; they are, in fact,
>in the care of the SF Coroner's office, where they've been all along...

Rats!  Another mystery de-mystified!  This had potential to be even better
than our Museum Soap Opera!

Bill

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