A new weather station, questions about free will, wrongful convictions, forensic genealogy, and a Colorado DNA scandal all point to one common theme: accountability—and what happens when those in power avoid it.
DNA
The Shocking Results Of My DNA Test
I got an early Christmas gift from the Ancestry DNA lab last week. My test results came back much earlier than I expected them. I sent the test in on November 28 and had results on December 21.
It’s a Jolly Holiday for Genealogy
I’m not sure why I’ve pulled back from the blog so drastically lately, but I have. Don’t take it personally. It’s not you, it’s me. I get this way around the holidays. Sit with me while I ramble a bit about the last few weeks.
Poor Guy
I don’t know what kind of life George McClelland led. Believers in karma must think he wasn’t very nice. George died in January, 2007. He’s still not buried. Two different women have claimed to be his daughter, and thus administrator of his estate. The main issue is George’s farm, which is worth a lot of Read More
DNA frees another
The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal clinic dedicated to bringing up appeals on cases where DNA can exonerate a convict. Since 1989, they have freed or cleared 191 people of the charges they were convicted of. On January 17, they scored number 192. James Waller was the 12th person convicted in Dallas County, Texas Read More