The following is a press release written by QIAGEN: QIAGEN N.V. announced that Bode Technology, the largest private U.S. forensics laboratory company with a growing presence in other regions, will become the exclusive global commercial partner for the GEDmatch PRO genealogy database, which is used to assist police and forensic teams with investigative comparisons of genetic …
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Philadelphia Police Exhume 8 Bodies From a Potter’s Field in the Hope DNA Testing Can Help ID Them
Investigators in Philadelphia are exhuming samples from eight bodies buried in a potter’s field this week in the hope that advances in DNA-based sleuthing can help them identify the long-ago victims and perhaps learn how they died. The victims include a 4- to 6-year-old girl found dead in 1962, an infant boy found in 1983 …
Illuminating the Stories of Brooklynites Through Digitized Directories
Some say as many as one in seven Americans have family roots in Brooklyn, and I expect the newly digitized Brooklyn city directories now available through the Internet Archive will get heavy use from genealogists, historians, authors, journalists, students, and even artists to trace connections to the diverse and ever-changing borough. Title page, Spooner’s Brooklyn Directory 1822. …