UPDATE from DNA Doe Project:
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"A brief status update on Lyle Stevik:
Lyle has many hundreds of DNA matches of various degrees. Our team has been following up on as many of his top matches for which we can find or construct a family tree. With time we could get lucky and a close family member might pop up. Hence, our appeals to the public to upload to GEDmatch. But in the meantime we keep working with the matches we do have. We have figured out family trees for well over two dozen of them, and most of these have ancestors they share with each other. Many of these will be Lyle’s ancestors, too. Our job entails going back 4 generations or more in each match’s tree, then finding all the descendants of those ancestors. We have one man in the tree with 88 grandchildren. We’re up pretty late at night!
Here again are the counties we are finding most often among the families of Lyle’s matches.
Rio Arriba, NM
Taos, NM
Las Animas, CO
Huerfano, CO
Pueblo, CO
San Juan, UT
If your family is from these areas and if you or any of your relatives have done a DNA test, It would be great if you would upload your results to GEDmatch.
Some people familiar with the Lyle Stevik case have suggested he may have been a bit fuller in the face at an earlier time in his life. This important detail is often overlooked, so perhaps those looking for “Lyle” may not yet have recognized him from previous images. With the kind permission of the remarkable artist Carl Koppelman please see the heavier version of Lyle below."
(see post for reconstruction photos)
Photo reconstruction credits: Carl Koppelman
