You see the advertisements all the time on television or on the web.

Submit your DNA and you'll be able to trace your ancestry back to the very beginning of your roots.

I mean it's very appealing.

So is there a problem with that or how does that work?

What does that mean about ourselves as believers of Jesus Christ?

Well, Jay Warner Wallace is back with this.

Jim Wallace is a cold case homicide detective, a popular national speaker, best selling author.

He continues to consult on cold case investigations

while serving as a senior fellow at the Coulson Center for Christian

worldview and Jim my friend has been a long time how are you?

Yeah it has been a long time I thought well you

you forgot about me out here we could never we could never forget.

I'm glad you're both there at the same time this is awesome.

It's a treat. Jim this is a total treat. All right. I'm glad to hear your voices. All right so the ancestry

thing it part of me gets excited about it the other half is creeped out by it.

Well you know we had had some luck actually with what you don't call luck with using

ancestry, open form ancestry DNA searches. For example, the Golden State

murder out here in California was recently connected.

Right, yeah, right.

By way of his, yeah, some of his family has searched for their ancestry and his marker was in our database. they actually started to compare the markers.

We have a similar case from the early 70s that we're working right now that I had

been, I got opened that it was a cold case. My dad first worked in the early 70s and then I opened it again in the early 2000s and

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