This post lists key events in the evolution of “investigative genetic genealogy”, the application of genetic genealogy techniques to criminal…
This post has been updated. Today, The New York Times published a shocking article. Some time this summer, GEDmatch granted…
This post has been updated with current prices. The genetic genealogy market has been spreading its wings lately, expanding into health…
This post has been updated. It’s beginning to look a lot like … Holiday Sales! The testing companies have just…
A song by the British–Irish folk-rock band The Waterboys has been playing on repeat in my head lately: I pictured…
This post will be updated as new details become available. In an early-morning press release on October 15, 2019, Ancestry.com…
23andMe DNA kits are on sale through October 15, 2019. Clustering methods are all the rage in genetic genealogy these…
In the mid-1940s, Dr. Thomas Jugarthy Hicks opened the Hicks Community Clinic in the small town of McCaysville, Georgia, mere…
DNA.Land was founded to unite the intellectual power of geneticists from Columbia University and the New York Genome Center with…
A frequent refrain in the genetic genealogy community is “Why do people take DNA tests if they’re not interested in…