Investigators told the San Jose Mercury News that by consulting an open-source DNA-sharing website called GEDmatch, they were able to find the genetic information of a distant relative of DeAngelo's.
A class-action lawsuit filed in August alleges that the operator of GEDmatch.com, a genealogy site that claims to have a database of more than 1 million members, has been sharing users’ information ...
The most often used are GEDmatch.com and FamilyTreeDNA.com. Both GEDmatch and FamilyTreeDNA require a person uploading DNA to agree to have their sample used in law enforcement searches. A person does ...
Nearly three decades after an unidentified man was set on fire in a brutal 1996 attack in southeast Atlanta, officials have ...
GEDmatch stands apart from companies such as 23andMe. It’s an open, crowdsourced database that anyone can search. Founded in 2010, it emerged as a tool for genealogy enthusiasts to upload DNA ...
(DNA Doe Project) Using online DNA databases like GEDmatch and FamilyTreeDNA, volunteer genealogists painstakingly pieced together family trees over months, eventually linking "Fulton County John ...
A class-action lawsuit filed in August alleges that the operator of GEDmatch.com, a genealogy site that claims to have a database of more than 1 million members, has been sharing users ...