The shooter was 12 when Trump was first elected. archive

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    There are genealogy databases that are public and or cooperate with authorities. Perhaps I’m a privacy nihilist, but IMHO, the cat’s kind of out of the bag for a lot of this. If you didn’t submit your DNA to a genealogy DB, you probably have family members that did so could see if they were 30% Italian or something.

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      That’s how they caught the golden state killer. I think it was his niece submitted a DNA sample and it popped up as related to the unknown sample they had.

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      I once read an expert on this and it seems they only need a very low amount of DNA samples (like 0.1% of the population) in the database to be able to narrow down any search to the sibling level.

      And traditional detective work can then figure out which sibling, if there are multiple.

      So yeah, the cat is out of the bag with this one.

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      It was the only reliable way to find who the biological parents of my father were, so yeah.

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      4 months ago

      Yes all these rocks and minerals need to be watched closely

      Lol

      I think you mean genealogy maybe?