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Somebody Knows Something · S3E8: Family Trees · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

Just because a record might be linked to someone on a genealogy site, it doesn't mean that that actually is the person.

And oftentimes, we are opening up scanned copies of handwritten records to make sure that the birth certificate or census record or whatever the record is actually correlates to someone in Witeria's family.

Yes, that's exactly right.

Similarly, Witeria's mother, Louise Miller, had Witeria and several other children.

So, any of Witeria's biological siblings would be maternal relatives.

And, just like her own children, that maternal line would continue from mother to daughter through Witeria's maternal nieces.

So, we could also use maternal nieces or nephews for our DNA standards as well.

And with that in mind, Beth, Andrew, and I began our tree with Witeria at the center, and we went back one generation to her parents, John Walter Orr and Louise Miller.

We consider going back even deeper into the Miller family side of Witeria's family to search for maternal relatives.

But Witeria was born in 1937, and her mother, Louise, was born all the way back in 1899.

So we felt that working down from Louise to her children was more reasonable, at least to start.

Based on the records we have so far, Whiteria had four sisters and four brothers.

As far as we can tell, all of her sisters have died, and at least three of her brothers have died as well.

However, the fact that she has multiple sisters still provides us with a huge opportunity, because some of them have children of their own.

And in fact, some of them have multiple children who share a maternal line with bacteria.

As we continue our search for DNA and family members, we wanted to include some basic information about how NamUs uses DNA samples so that the people and the public will consider cooperating in cases like this by providing DNA to law enforcement.

There are very strict protocols and rules for how DNA is used in these cases, so we wanted to provide that information here in this episode.

Here's a brief portion of the actual consent waiver for NamUs that we use in our cases when collecting DNA for that system.

And when you mail your sample to Ancestry.com or 23andMe, you still have access to your profile.

In fact, you can actually click on the site and download your own DNA data.

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