I’m aware of Law Enforcement sending Z’s possible DNA into the public GEDmatch databases for relative matches. Do these websites search other countries? Like England or other countries in the UK? Or is it just in the United States that they look for relative matches?
Everywhere and anywhere however Gedmatch is not freely giving up their users information any more.
Not really. Sites like Gedmatch etc are predominantly Used by Americans. So for the most part their database is useful for finding Americans.
Gedmatch and other similar sites are almost entirely DNA databases constructed from samples from their American users. So if you were an English police officer for example looking to track down and solve some old UK cold case via DNA. It would be a waste of time searching through Ged match etc given it really only contains Americans.
Uk Police don’t even really need to use public sites like Gedmatch, Because they have pretty strong powers which allow them to collect DNA from people they charge, arrest and suspect of crimes. So over the course of a few decades, they have created a pretty comprehensive DNA Criminal database. If you were looking to solve some Uk Cold case you would use that database not Gedmatch.
To my knowledge, Zodiac’s DNA has not been submitted to any of these ancestry websites.
“Murder will out, this my conclusion.”
– Geoffrey Chaucer
Not really. Sites like Gedmatch etc are predominantly Used by Americans. So for the most part their database is useful for finding Americans.
Gedmatch and other similar sites are almost entirely DNA databases constructed from samples from their American users. So if you were an English police officer for example looking to track down and solve some old UK cold case via DNA. It would be a waste of time searching through Ged match etc given it really only contains Americans.
Uk Police don’t even really need to use public sites like Gedmatch, Because they have pretty strong powers which allow them to collect DNA from people they charge, arrest and suspect of crimes. So over the course of a few decades, they have created a pretty comprehensive DNA Criminal database. If you were looking to solve some Uk Cold case you would use that database not Gedmatch.
I assume a UK equivalent to GEDmatch could help to solve UK cold cases where DNA cannot be be traced to a suspect or the criminal database.
Not really. Sites like Gedmatch etc are predominantly Used by Americans. So for the most part their database is useful for finding Americans.
Gedmatch and other similar sites are almost entirely DNA databases constructed from samples from their American users. So if you were an English police officer for example looking to track down and solve some old UK cold case via DNA. It would be a waste of time searching through Ged match etc given it really only contains Americans.
The swedish police did use GEDmatch & Family Tree in a double murder in Linköping. https://www.thelocal.se/20200916/dna-hi … r-16-years
I believe some foreigner do send samples to find relatives who immigrated. (Edit I think they found German relatives in the GEDmatch database).
It is also now possible to search for relatives in Sweden’s crmial records. They also collect blood samples for all new borns since the 70s. Altough it is not a dna register it is possible for police to use it to get dna of a suspect. They need good reason to get the sample of a suspect from the regiister. It was used in the murder case of foreign minister Anna Lind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Lindh
