CC Moore
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About 2009, this new type of DNA to use for genealogy was introduced, and it's become a huge industry.
You're a mom. Oh, give me a hug. Adoptees and people with unknown parentage started coming to me and asking me to identify their birth parents.
It's a public database. The largest database is 23 million ancestry DNA, only except saliva samples. And so you have to spit in that tube, create quite a bit of saliva. So you can't get that from a crime scene biological sample.
That's correct. And those companies have purposely tried to make that difficult because they don't want law enforcement using their databases for these purposes.
This is indeed a game changer because every law enforcement department in the country or maybe in the world just realized the power of genetic genealogy.