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Rafael Passoni
03-18-2023, 03:11 AM
Is there any company that provide autosomal ancestry report from special samples?
I have dentures from both my paternal grandparents, old blood on cloth from my maternal grandmother and a used razor from my maternal grandfather.
I read it on an article:
"LivingDNA used DNA collected from a postage stamp to help a woman found as a baby in a blackberry bush to locate her family. "
https://familytreemagazine.com/dna/dna-fact-or-science-fiction/

Rafael Passoni
03-18-2023, 07:31 AM
It seems this company do it
https://www.totheletterdna.com/who
I will contact them to ask if they can extract from old blood on cloth, they describe it on their website : "we are the first company in the world to offer commercially-available testing of envelopes, postcards with stamp/s, aerogrammes and other artefacts from deceased relatives for genealogical purposes. " (...)"Our aim is to generate an autosomal DNA (atDNA) text file compatible for use with GEDmatch(...)
It is wonderful!