Biocodicology - A Deeper Dive

[Mark Knowles]

I am discussing what may be possible in the future i.e. 10, 20 or 30 years from now. These contemporary human DNA databases are growing all the time and the techniques for determining ancestry from this data are improving all the time. I wonder to what extent the compiling of historic DNA from known individuals is happening. The digitisation of historic ancestry records, like church records, is continuing, so the means to find historic ancestry is getting easier. The ability to determine an individual's characteristics from their DNA is improving all the time. So in many ways what I suggest is getting easier all the time; this does not mean in the end that it will be possible, but I don't think one can say that it is not possible.