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GEDmatch is a free database and that GEDmatch is and I think it was 23andMe.

No, FTDNA are the only two that allow law enforcement, coroners and whatever to search unidentifieds.

They're the only ones where we can upload the unidentified DNA.

So it's very important that if you have an Ancestry or a 23andMe to download your DNA, download your kit to a file and then upload it to GEDmatch, which is, I did it myself and I don't do computers.

Photos and a marriage license in Habtiab's apartment seemed to support the Highway 401 Jane Doe being Stephanie, his wife.

But DNA testing on the Jane Doe showed that she was of Indigenous heritage, whereas the wife was listed as Eritrean and Italian, not consistent with being Indigenous.

And then further digging revealed that Stephanie and Romila were alive and well in Italy.

Well, well.

Her dental records were available, but there was no name to compare them to.

An examination of the dental work led investigators to believe that at least some of her work had been performed in Europe, which turned out to be incorrect.

Early anthropological examination concluded that she was possibly Polynesian, Inuit, or Native North American, and then DNA testing confirmed her indigenous ancestry.

None of it produced a name.

Mega DNA databases such as Ancestry and 23andMe don't allow their sites to be used for identifying the deceased.

GEDmatch and FamilyTreeDNA are the only websites and DNA databases that investigative genealogists are permitted to use.

And if you're one of the many millions who have already taken a DNA test through a company like Ancestry or 23andMe, you can download your raw DNA data and upload it to GEDmatch and FamilyTreeDNA for free.

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Written and reported by me, Olivia LaVoie.

They delivered it to Lauren Felix and Bob Taft in February of 2023.

Investigator Taft told me that they uploaded to both Family Tree DNA and GEDmatch, and they found a number of DNA relatives who shared upwards of 100 centimorgans of DNA with John Doe.

He and Investigator Felix each took on a separate genetic network and built out the trees until they could figure out where they intersected and identify the most recent common ancestors.

They finally identified possible grandparents of John Doe in October 2023.

Othram's initial report indicated that the suspect had European origins, fifty-seven percent from Central Europe, twenty-five percent from the British Isles, sixteen from Ireland, and three percent from Greece and the Balkans.

Then they uploaded the SNP to Family Tree DNA.

The top match shared two hundred and fifty-three centimorgans with the suspect.

Additional matches shared a hundred and sixty, sixty-four, and fifty centimorgans.

Nannie and John had two sons, John Alva and Henry Jean, who lived in neighboring towns to Carol Bolin at the time of her death, making them potential suspects.

Investigator Holt arranged to meet with Henry Jean at the Lumberton Police Department on August 25th, 2023.

Henry Jean agreed to submit a DNA sample, which was completed using a Family Tree DNA kit.

The kit was sent to Othram for analysis, and Othram's report, dated October 2, 2023, excluded Henry Jean, his brother, and his first and second cousins.