DNA commodification is no longer a future concern; it’s a present reality. Beyond charging users for their services, some ...
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 ...
Nearly three decades after an unidentified man was set on fire in a brutal 1996 attack in southeast Atlanta, officials have ...
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 ...
When someone is murdered, they leave behind heartbroken families desperate for answers. As months, years, and decades pass, ...
Mary Schlias was hitchhiking from Minneapolis to Chicago when the then-25-year-old was picked up and stabbed to death. Her ...
The investigation into the 1995 murder of Texas teacher Mary Catherine Edwards went cold for years. Advances in forensic science and tireless work by investigators would reveal the startling ...
The investigation into the 1995 murder of Texas teacher Mary Catherine Edwards went cold for years. Advances in forensic ...
They used that DNA to find matches within the suspect's family who have voluntarily uploaded their information to genetic ...
DNA from a badly decomposed man found in Cheyenne in November 2023 hasn’t so far helped identify him. But the Laramie County ...
(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 ...