Carla Davis is an Investigative Genetic Genealogist who in the past year has contributed more than $100,000 dollars of her funds to a genetics lab to assist in solving cold cases, mainly those from her home state of Mississippi. Carla is the founder of DNA Davis and has been instrumental in solving several cold cases by using skills honed from working with unknown parentage cases. In this episode, we are given a day-in-life as Carla describes her process of scouring obituaries, newspapers, census records, and of all things Facebook! This is the 'GoFundMe era' and forensic genetic genealogy is a complete game-changer. It is the long-term goal to eradicate cold cases and get cases funded and solved. Listeners are encouraged to submit their DNA or to donate money directly to cases on sites like DNA Solves or Justice Drive. Listeners who have already taken consumer DNA tests are encouraged to upload their results to Family Tree DNA or GEDmatch.
