Forensic Genetic Genealogy Pioneers

Who Am I? What is My Name – Part XIII – A DNA Match

“If we do not come back for her, send her to our relatives in America”. According to Wolfgang and Adele Rebhun’s eyewitness account they provided to the Yad Vashem, these were among the last words spoken by Pnina’s mother the day she brought her daughter to their apartment to be hidden on the Aryan side […]

ISHI 27 – David O’Shea and the Grandmothers of the Plaza

The 2017 International Symposium on Human Identification (ISHI27) was amazing.  Top DNA researchers from the international community attended, along with forensic specialists and law enforcement personnel interested in advancements in DNA technology.  The topics ranged from DNA phenotyping with ever-more-accurate predictions of hair color, eye color, and ethnicity, to the sexual assault kit backlog, to Rapid DNA analysis for mass disasters and missing […]