Cece Moore

And so we do look at those other things.

And that's something I think a lot of people don't realize is that with investigative genetic genealogy, the DNA just gets us started.

Without someone's family tree, it's meaningless.

Without trying to being able to identify the descendants of the common ancestors we identify, it's meaningless.

So we're looking at location.

Location's huge.

We look for the one branch of the tree that maybe moved closer to the crime scene.

And 99% of the time, we find someone who lived right there within 10, 20 miles, sometimes within one mile.

And so that's a really powerful part of it.

And then we use phenotyping at Parabon where they can predict eye color, hair color, skin color, even shape face.

And so we use a lot of different techniques

factors to narrow it down further when there isn't enough in the database to point us at just one person or one family.

That's right.

So we don't have many families or individuals in GEDmatch or Family Tree DNA that are recent immigrants.

And so it's really difficult to identify someone if they were born in another country or their parents or even grandparents or great grandparents were.

And so there are some cases where it's not viable to perform genetic genealogy, but Parabon can still perform the phenotyping and still create this image of what someone might look like.

Now, it's not meant to be photographic, but it's meant to give you their traits.

And so it is used in quite a few cases where there just aren't enough matches, aren't enough data for phenotyping.

genetic genealogy.

But what I have found is where it's most powerful is in conjunction with each other.