Dr. Kemi Price is a medical physician in Southern California by day and DNA sleuth by night. As a lifelong puzzle enthusiast, Dr. Kemi Price is exhilarated by the opportunity to connect elements of provided and available information with samples provided by her clients. She has been active in generic genealogy work for the last decade and is as passionate today as when she began. To date, Dr. Kemi Price has aided over one hundred individuals with her genetic genealogical research expertise. 

In 2012, Dr. Kemi Price began her journey into genetic research out of a desire for a challenge and to discover missing links in her own family tree. DNA databases were limited for some time which resulted in her family working on their family tree for 40 years. This challenge led her to ancestry links before 1871. Word of Dr. Kemi Price has attracted many interested parties. 

Technological advancements have played a large role in developing Dr. Kemi Price’s process. The increase in availability of DNA profiles and specialty databases have enabled Dr. Kemi Price to make her way through history to uncover answers her clients long for. Her process can vary significantly by how much information she has available to begin. Dr. Kemi Price has begun with clues from the interested party or even completely from scratch.

Dr. Kemi Price later went on to work an adoption case where there were issues receiving replies from possible matches, resulting in the necessary creation of six family trees from scratch. She was able to successfully identify the birth parents of the client. 

In 2019, Dr. Kemi Price was approached by a family friend with an interest in their family tree. The data contributed by Dr. Kemi Price resulted in being contacted by a police department’s cold case task force out of New Mexico. Dr. Kemi Price noted that it was her toughest case to date. She began with a single match, unlike normally where several are used to associate. Each family was extensive with an average of ten children each. That family tree was built out to include 6500 individuals. Dr. Kemi Price went on to locate a branch with substantial violence in the home. From that point she was able to indicate the family group to detectives that needed closer attention. She was able to identify an individual suspect. The suspect was followed, a coffee cup with DNA was obtained providing a positive DNA match to the suspect and police were able to apprehend him.

When the pandemic hit, genetic genealogy was a welcomed diversion from medicine. In October 2020, Dr. Kemi Price was contacted regarding a homicide case. She was able to identify a suspect in just three weeks despite initially being told it was unsolvable.

Dr. Kemi Price's findings have brought many families together. Sometimes the findings are less than desirable, but still make way for the creation of new bonds through the family they were not previously aware they had. The heartfelt and emotional thank yous make the challenge well worth the effort. 

Dr. Kemi Price didn’t expect or seek out to work with cold case units, but since her experience is looking to make it her primary focus. She felt that she could make a great impact for cold case units through use of her knowledge. She then decided that her goal would be to work cases while coaching a member from the department to learn how she is able to utilize genetics to identify a suspect. Then when the initial case is finished they will have their own in-house resource. 

There are companies doing similar work for $10,000 per case, while functioning as a middleman. For $2500 Dr. Kemi Price will work on a case while training an individual of your choosing. The added value to solve cases through use of Dr. Kemi Price’s method in-house will save the department substantial money.

Dr. Kemi Price’s advice for selecting the individual to shadow her is to find the person sitting in the corner doing crossword puzzles with a pen. She would like people to know that it is of the utmost importance to not give up or get discouraged, but rather try to have fun with the search. Dr. Kemi Price has a podcast in the works titled In Search of a Stranger. For updates, check back soon.