The sky is falling! The end is nigh! People are deleting their trees! Why? Because Ancestry recently updated their…
This post has been updated. In the midst of political turmoil in the USA, two major changes took place in…
AncestryDNA updated their Terms and Conditions on 23 September, 2020. The Legal Genealogist has (as usual) has written an excellent…
The petition is no longer active. GEDmatch has chosen to expose users to some forensic investigations even if those users…
As of December 9, 2019, GEDmatch is operated by Verogen, Inc. (“Verogen”) following the acquisition by Verogen of the GEDmatch…
This post is updated as events transpire. This post lists key events in the evolution of “investigative genetic genealogy”, the…
This post has been updated. Today, The New York Times published a shocking article. Some time this summer, GEDmatch granted…
DNA.Land was founded to unite the intellectual power of geneticists from Columbia University and the New York Genome Center with…
A family friend has leukemia. He’s 11. Without chemotherapy, he would have died. Thanks to modern biomedical research, though, he’s…
Every once in a while, untruths spread through the genetic genealogy world that have the potential to do great damage:…