As of December 9, 2019, GEDmatch is operated by Verogen, Inc. (“Verogen”) following the acquisition by Verogen of the GEDmatch…
This summer, GEDmatch was served with a warrant from an Orlando, Florida, court pertaining to a violent serial rapist. The…
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…
The past year has seen a chilling in the genetic genealogy industry: DNA kit sales are down drastically since April…
The genetic genealogy community is in turmoil. People are angry, accusations are flying, and friendships are sundering. All over something…
A family friend has leukemia. He’s 11. Without chemotherapy, he would have died. Thanks to modern biomedical research, though, he’s…
At age 16, Jerry’s mother was working in a canning factory, where she met a young man. As things happen,…
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‘So frustrating! 95% of my DNA matches don’t have trees!’ ‘People at Company X only test for their ethnicity estimates. …