DNA commodification is no longer a future concern; it’s a present reality. Beyond charging users for their services, some ...

(DNA Doe Project) Using online DNA databases like GEDmatch and FamilyTreeDNA, volunteer genealogists painstakingly pieced together family trees over months, eventually linking "Fulton County John ...

Nearly three decades after an unidentified man was set on fire in a brutal 1996 attack in southeast Atlanta, officials have ...

According to the DNA Doe Project, David Brown died after he was doused in kerosene and set on fire, blocks away from his Atlanta home in 1996. Brown was known as Fulton County John Doe and buried ...

A class-action lawsuit filed in August alleges that the operator of GEDmatch.com, a genealogy site that claims to have a database of more than 1 million members, has been sharing users ...

GEDmatch stands apart from companies such as 23andMe. It’s an open, crowdsourced database that anyone can search. Founded in 2010, it emerged as a tool for genealogy enthusiasts to upload DNA ...

A huge data breach followed by a plummeting valuation has stoked fears of a sale of 23andMe along with all of its customers' genetic data.

Then came some help from Melissa Stevens. “Melissa’s DNA kit was uploaded to GEDmatch and she is one of our higher matches to our Victoriano John Doe and so I reached out to her and asked for her ...