One of our long time volunteers has written a great article called How Misattributed Parentage and Other Challenges Can Complicate Your Investigative Genetic Genealogy Case for ISHI. The article describes a case, anonymized for privacy of the family, involving a young...
Joseph Newton Chandler III (Robert Ivan Nichols) U.S. Marshals release name of man who stole Joseph Newton Chandler’s identity, by Jonathan Jankowski, “Cleveland 19 News” WOIO — Investigators said the man living under the name of Joseph Newton Chandler III was...
Terry Deggs The mystery of the man in the Mill Creek shed is solved, by Caleb Hutton, “HeraldNet” — Nathaniel Terrence Deggs real name remained a mystery until volunteers at DNA Doe Project cracked the case over the past 1½ years. Amateur genealogist...
Debra Jackson 40 years after her death, Debra Jackson of Abilene identified as ‘Orange Socks’, by Claire Osborn, “Statesman” — After Jackson’s sister saw her sketch on television, she provided her DNA to a nonprofit group called the DNA Doe Project...
Louise Virginia Peterson Flesher She Was Found Strangled in a Well, and Now She Has a Name, by Sarah Zhang, “The Atlantic” — This morning, the coroner’s office announced the real name of the Belle in the Well: Louise Virginia Peterson Flesher, born...
New Complication In Identifying Grundy County ‘Jane Doe’, by Steve Miller, “WBBM NewsRadio” — Johnson is hopeful that later this month, a group called the DNA Doe Project will enter the woman’s DNA into GEDmatch, a database that is...
