This post has been updated. Today, The New York Times published a shocking article. Some time this summer, GEDmatch granted…
A song by the British–Irish folk-rock band The Waterboys has been playing on repeat in my head lately: I pictured…
A family friend has leukemia. He’s 11. Without chemotherapy, he would have died. Thanks to modern biomedical research, though, he’s…
Almost. Family Tree DNA almost got it right. In late January 2019, we learned that FTDNA had quietly changed their…
On 31 January, 2019, we learned from Buzzfeed that Family Tree DNA had allowed the FBI to use their customer…
This post has been updated. Today, Buzzfeed broke the story that Family Tree DNA has been allowing FBI agents to…
Every once in a while, untruths spread through the genetic genealogy world that have the potential to do great damage:…
Today, Judy Russell shared her perspective on genetic privacy and the use of genealogy databases by law enforcement. No matter…
This post has been updated. The genealogy world is ablaze with the revelation that our beloved GEDmatch was used to…
The arrest of the Golden State Killer has sparked debates about the ethics of government representatives using a private genealogy…