Update 6/1/23: Craig Walls is no longer employed at the Kenai Wells Fargo, nor is he vice president of the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank https://kpfoodbank.org/ He now works for Kenai Aviation, a small company offering commuter flights in Alaska. https://www.kenaiaviation.com/ Craig Lathan Walls began working at the Kenai Wells Fargo in 2016 after moving to…
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Wisconsin State Public School for Dependent & Neglected Children
An act of legislature in 1885 set aside a $30,000 budget for the establishment of a children’s home. The children’s home officially opened it’s doors to child placements in 1886. This home would come to be known as the State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children. However, it was also known by other names,…
Walter
TikTok Video Links:Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Walter’s case was an exceptionally challenging (and intimidating!) case to solve. I knew from the very beginning that the odds of solving this case were not high. Too much time had passed and…
2021 Update: How to Do a DNA Test Without Spit
At the time I developed my spit-less DNA test method, I had absolutely no idea it would blow up the way it did. I knew that saliva production was a common roadblock to DNA testing, but I did not know exactly how significant of a problem this was. Since I developed this method in 2016,…
Update: Re: How to do a DNA test without spit
As some of you may have seen in a previous blog, I recently devised a method to obtain a saliva sample for DNA testing without using actual saliva. (For full instructions, see my blog post: How to do an AncestryDNA test WITHOUT spit) This method has been questioned by many in genetic genealogy circles, however, I…
How to do a DNA test WITHOUT spit!
The science behind genealogical DNA testing is amazing, and in many cases (like mine) it can be completely life-altering. There’s one issue though; two of the three companies require saliva samples and not a cheek swab. While this might not seem like a big deal, it can be when you’re trying to test older generations…