IGG and The Crippling Effects of Ancestry’s Legal Changes
By Jennifer Bucholtz 02/16/2026
Jennifer Bucholtz
IGG and the Crippling Effects of Ancestry's Legal Changes
Editor’s note: This article was written with input from David Gurney, Director of Ramapo College’s Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center. His program is assisting the law enforcement agency the author works for with the identification of a set of human remains located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1986.
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