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Genetic Genealogy
Beyond Genetic Genealogy: Building Family Trees to Investigate Crime
“Class! Class!” Diahan Southard raises her voice and claps twice, cutting through the buzz of conversation that fills the room. Dutifully, her class responds. “Ye...
Genetic Genealogy – What Does the Future Hold?
Across the United States, and increasingly internationally, detectives are closing cases that have long since grown cold using investigative genealogy. Killers and other preda...
Privacy Concerns Don’t Stop People from Putting Their DNA on the Internet to Help Solve Crimes
Sarah Esther Lageson, Rutgers University Americans are embracing the use of DNA databases to solve crimes. Over the past year DNA submitted to ancestry websites ...
Forensic Genealogy: What Your Second Cousin’s DNA May Say about You
“The DNA people said, ‘That was him. You got him.’ And the whole room just exploded. Some detectives were crying. Some detectives were sitting there with their mouths op...
To Catch a Predator – An Interview with Paul Holes
In his keynote address at ISHI 30 this September, Paul Holes will detail how investigative genealogy techniques, determination, and more than a little bit of patience led to t...
Ethical Issues Around Investigative Genealogy
Craig Klugman, a Bioethicist at DePaul University details the issues surrounding commercial DNA databases and using these databases for investigative genealogy purposes, and o...
Using Genetic Genealogy to Provide Answers – an Interview with CeCe Moore
Sarah Dingle, an investigative journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation interviews CeCe Moore to discuss how she’s used genetic genealogy to help adoptees...
Announcing the ISHI 30 Keynote Speaker
He went by many names. In Sacramento, he was known as the East Area Rapist. Southern California called him the Original Night Stalker. Others gave him the name Diamond Knot Ki...
Considerations for the Use of Forensic Genetic Genealogy to Assist in Identifying Australia’s Unidentified Human Remains
It has been estimated that Australia has up to 500 unidentified human remains. The use of forensic genetic genealogy could assist in identifying some of these remains. But the...