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…
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…
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…
This post has been updated. On April 25, 2018, news broke that Joseph James DeAngelo was arrested as the serial…