Library To Offer Genealogy, Handwriting Deciphering Class Aug. 14  Patch.com

Library To Hold Genealogy, Handwriting Class – Mooresville, NC – The Mooresville Public Library is offering a class to help sleuth out details of genealogy, such …

‘It’s A Big Deal’: Victim In 40-Year-Old ‘Orange Socks’ Cold Case Identified  Oxygen

After four decades of mystery, a woman who was found dead in a Texas concrete ditch wearing nothing but orange socks on Halloween 1979 has been …

Tracing the Declaration of Arbroath’s family lines  University of Strathclyde

Genealogists at the University of Strathclyde are seeking descendants of the Declaration of Arbroath’s signatories, ahead of the historic document’s 700th …

DNA tech helps League City police make rare discovery in Calder Road cases  Community Impact Newspaper

Aug 8, 2019: The League City Police Department in April used genealogy technology to make a breakthrough in a decades-old cold case, bringing answers to …

Renewed interest in genealogy draws group together at Roanoke library  WDBJ7

The Genealogy Club meets once a month to share new tools and delight in each other’s discoveries.

DNA Detections  Salt Lake City Weekly

How 3 individuals experienced big reveals through genetic genealogy.

Detective in Golden State Killer Case to Open 30th ISHI  SelectScience

The 30th International Symposium on Human Identification (ISHI) September 23-26 in Palm Springs, CA will open with a first-hand account by the detective who …

Williamson County names victim in 40-year-old ‘Orange Socks’ cold case  KXAN.com

The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office is reporting a break in a four-year-old cold case commonly known as the “Orange socks” case.

A Connecticut ‘vampire’s’ remains were found 30 years ago. Now DNA is giving him new life  National Post

New research casts light on the vampire scare in New England in the late 1700s and early 1800s, and its links to the spread of tuberculosis.

A DNA test connected two distant cousins — and filled out a family history that slavery erased  PRI

Two distant cousins took DNA tests. When they connected, one of them — a descendant of enslaved Africans brought to the US — was able to tell the other …