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For The Guardian, I wrote about the DNA Doe Project, a volunteer organization using investigative genetic genealogy to track down the identities of Jane and John Does.
I was amazed by the number of cases they’ve solved–some of these people have been missing for decades, even a century. And it all started because the founder, Margaret Press, read a mystery novel.