The Genetic Detective.2 CeCe talked with me about the inception of investigative genetic genealogy—then mostly called forensic genealogy—and how she and her colleagues saw the potential to use this new technology to solve crimes. The shift to “investigative” over the past few years has been made to differentiate investigative genetic genealogy from both traditional genealogy and from the established field of forensic genealogy, which predates DNA-based work and focuses on tracing heirs in legal cases.
