Genetic Detective
Specializing in Genetic Genealogy since 2017.
What is genetic genealogy?
Genetic genealogy uses your DNA results to find further information about your family tree - things you might not be able to find by document research or oral history alone.
Your DNA results will provide a list of DNA matches - you are related to every one of those matches, and we make it our business to help you figure out the connections!
Several different companies do these tests, and we can help you interpret DNA results from any of them. That said, Ancestry has the largest database, and in most cases should be your first choice if you've not yet had your DNA tested.
If I get a DNA test done, do I still need your services?
When you get your DNA results, you can of course do your own research. Although DNA results provide a list of DNA matches, they do NOT tell you how you are related to these matches - you do not automatically get a full family tree! There are still many hours of work to do to figure this out.
We can quickly find the answers to your genealogical mysteries.
We use a combination of DNA analysis and rapidly evolving search techniques to connect adoptees with their birth families, and to identify mystery ancestors.
More than 26 million people have added their DNA to the four leading commercial ancestry databases. If the pace continues, this could become 100 million people within 24 months. This is the information that will lead us to your biological family.
Tracing Biological Family
One of the best ways to find members of your biological family is to take a DNA test. Even if the person you're trying to find hasn't taken the test, a relative of theirs may have - and this is where we step in.
Performing a search to find biological family requires patience, skill with the latest technology and rapidly evolving search techniques, and unparalleled access to a world of record collections, archival newspapers, and multiple other historical documents.
We have years of successful experience locating adoptee birth families and mystery ancestors.
Forensic Genealogy
Using genealogy to identify a suspect or a Jane/John Doe is not so different than the process of looking for the birth parents of an adoptee. The process begins with a DNA sample, uploaded to a public database.
In most cases, the only matches will be distant cousins, but we are able to map out family trees by cross-referencing shared bits of DNA with public records, obituaries, and social-media profiles.
If DNA was left behind, we can work through the genetic links, and find our way back to the identity of the offender or missing person.
Our Research Team
Jane Mulkewich
Jane is a lawyer, currently Legal Director of a large Union, and formerly was the Community Relations Co-ordinator for the Hamilton Police Service.
