Hunting Forebears Genealogical Services

08/12/2025

Yup, it has been a while. Working to get back online now.

06/13/2025

06/12/2025

06/12/2025

Or raise the living and annoy the dead? Oh wait, that is in October.

06/02/2021

Cold Case and Missing Person investigations. My Channel also donates a large portion of the youtube generated income to Charities associated with True Crime.

05/27/2021

Although we went on with our lives, it was always in the back of our minds as unfinished business. In a way it was Damocles' sword hanging over us. We never knew when, or if, the news would come but we knew when and if it did, all the emotions would come roiling back

09/26/2020

A great case for genetic genealogy, not only for solving cold cases, but also for clearing those who were incorrectly convicted.

The process involved using GEDmatch, an online service that compares DNA data from different testing companies, the same platform that also helped identify a suspect in the golden state killer case in California.

08/16/2020

You know, I wish the newspapers would write like they did this past century. You got a complete feel of the crime scenes and they held very little back.

"The room was in a horrible condition when Chief of Police Bernhard and Deputy Coroner W. F. Bower entered the place. On the bed lay the dead girl, still warm with blood flowing from a nasty bullet hole in the neck. The blood just gushed forth from it. It saturated the bed clothes and ran into a pool under her head on the pillow, matting a beautiful head of waving brown hair. The head fell to the right and from all appearances the woman never moved after the bullet hit her. The rest of the bed clothes were full of blood and it looked like a slaughterhouse.

On the floor, in front of the bed, Free was found lying in a pool of blood. From the position of the body it is believed he tried to leap out of the bed to protect the girl. He was shot and collapsed, partially to a rug in front of the bed, with one foot still resting on the bed. He was lying in a heap with blood flowing from the wound in the forehead and the finger. He was unconscious and breathing heavily. He had taken a roll of toilet paper to staunch the blood until he became unconscious. A large quantity of blood was split and from this it was feared that his wound was of a fatal character. He was dressed in his underclothes. On the chair nearby were hanging his street clothes of very good quality. In the hip pocket was found a blackjack.

“2 Are Dead, a Third May Die as the Result of Jealous Man’s Act,” Allentown (Pennsylvania) Democrat, 22 July 1912, p. 5, col 1.
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It is a rather long story and large file, but here is the original article:

08/16/2020

Woo hoo! Guess who is the very first forensic genealogist who obtained membership into the International Association for Identification?

Why Hunting Forebears!

05/22/2020

I look down on my desk and see nine death certificates unfolded on it.

What do you think it says about me? Any ideas?

03/13/2020

I have been binging Outlander. I have reached the part where Claire became pregnant in the 18th century by a Scotsman only to deliver the baby in the 20th century.

All I can think about it is how screwed up the child's autosomal DNA test must be if she has it done.

02/15/2020

Here is another case of where genetic genealogy is a good thing. It not only catches murders and rapists, but it also frees wrongly imprisoned individuals.

Be sure to "opt-in" for law enforcement use of your raw DNA on GEDMatch or other sites to assist in these cases.

Fifteen years after Ricky Leo Davis was imprisoned, forensic evidence and genetic genealogy have exonerated him.