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Jaytalon98 t1_j9udgre wrote

Reply to comment by seizethedayboys in Suspect arrested in 2001 killing of a pregnant soldier at a former U.S. Army base in Germany by StevenSanders90210

Forensic genealogy just became possible in the last couple years and so MANY cold cases are being solved when they couldn’t just by DNA alone.

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Edit 2: I can see someone replied but I can’t read it. I just want to clarify that forensic genealogy isn’t just a paternity test. The goal is to find suspects using their family tree data from places like 23 and me. With that data and a professional genealogist, we’re able to better locate suspects where it was not previously possible.

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bros402 t1_j9vroo3 wrote

and to clarify, Ancestry.com and 23andme do not allow law enforcement to use their databases for forensic genealogy.

Most of the professionals use a website called GEDMatch, which has around ~800k people who uploaded their raw DNA data that they had performed by sites such as Ancestry, 23andme, Family Tree DNA, and MyHeritage.

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