The FBI has struck up a partnership with one of the largest at-home DNA testing services, according to BuzzFeed News. Apparently, Family Tree DNA has allowed the agency to access its genealogy ...

In March 2017, in the final months of law enforcement’s 40-year hunt for the Golden State Killer, the private genetic testing company FamilyTreeDNA and their parent company, Gene by Gene, were served ...

Some genealogy databases are making privacy changes, which police and prosecutors said are creating challenges.The changes are affecting a 44-year-old homicide investigation in Lancaster County.Lindy ...

GEDmatch's new "opt-in" policy went into effect on Sunday. A change to GEDmatch, a third-party genealogy site that's helped crack cold cases through user's DNA, may hinder law enforcement's ability to ...

The United States is a country of immigrants. It's rare to find anyone who doesn't have to start looking outside of the country for information about their grandparents or greatgrandparents. If you ...

A large consumer DNA test database, Family Tree DNA, has quietly started allowing the FBI to upload genetic profiles created from crime scenes and corpses, according to BuzzFeed. Solving crimes: The ...

John and Mei-lian Lin were having dinner and watching the news when the story broke that investigators had used a public genealogy database to help find the 72-year-old man they believe is the Golden ...