Italy - Prato, WhtFem, hanged, maps of Vancouver & Copenhagen, 13 Nov 2007

[Aurora90]

Or maybe genetic genealogy is the better route.

I know being of East African decent there isn’t much information available due to lack of input from certain demographics communities.is the Polish population similarly impacted?

Maybe @othram can answer that?

 

[MarziPanda]

Or maybe genetic genealogy is the better route.

I know being of East African decent there isn’t much information available due to lack of input from certain demographics communities.is the Polish population similarly impacted?

Maybe @othram can answer that?

It's definitely harder to use genetic genealogy outside of the US. Most of the people who have taken DNA tests and uploaded to GEDmatch are Americans of European descent. So whilst it's not usually difficult to connect the dots between an unidentified white American Doe and their relatives, it's much harder for anyone who will have very few relatives in the US (or few who have tested). So a Polish woman might have only very distant relatives, such as their great great grandmother's brother's great great grandchild, if said brother moved to the US. It's also harder because not every country has accessible genealogy records - it may be hard for a genetic genealogist in the US to find records from 100 years ago in Poland.

But it's not impossible, and the technique has been successfully used in Europe before. At the very least it would likely confirm where she was from.