Bobbie Greene is Associate Investigator, Forensic Genealogy Specialist and Populations Pages Manager at DNA Consultants. She also acts as curator for DNA Consultants’ population database atDNA. She brings a rich personal heritage—European, Native American, Jewish and Middle Eastern—and a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion to her work. Bobbie views her role as a meaningful opportunity to honor and celebrate the unique ancestral stories of individuals and communities. She holds an M.A. in Literature from Georgia State University and an M.Ed. in Global Issues in Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A veteran educator, Bobbie taught high school English Language Arts and English Language Learning for 12 years before transitioning into public service. She also served as a Learning & Development Specialist with the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois.
Jakay Jarvis is Research Associate, Associate Investigator and Staff Writer for DNA Consultants. She is active in DNA Communities and provides liaison with our Amazon store. A retired journalist, she lives in Ormond Beach, Florida.
Teresa A. Panther-Yates, M.A. is Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer. She is co-author of Cherokee DNA Studies II: More Real People Who Proved the Geneticists Wrong (2021), as well as other DNA publications. A former professor, Panther-Yates is a native of Pensacola, Florida. She also writes fiction and in 2023 published Journeys to Mexico, an experiment in combining travel and fantastic realism.
Wendell F. Paulson, M.S. Mathematical Statistics is Statistics Consultant, responsible for all development of atDNA (our autosomal STR frequency database now in version 11.5). Professor Paulson is emeritus Faculty Associate in the Math and Natural Sciences Division of Arizona State University, West Campus, in Phoenix and former Adjunct Faculty member in the Math Division at Paradise Valley Community College. Among his many distinctions is an American Society for Quality Six Sigma Black Belt. Professor Paulson lives in Peoria, Arizona.
Angel E. Rawles is Assistant Investigator. She lives in Pensacola, Florida.
Alejandro Rodriguez is Web Support, Marketing & Design Manager. He works in Cuenca, Spain.
Douglas Schar, Ph.D. is an independent historical consultant who contributes blog posts on crypto-Jewish genealogy. Read his About Me page at Hidden Jewish Ancestry. Dr. Schar has lived in London, New York and Washington. He currently resides on his own eco farm on an ancient Indian site just 16 miles from the National Mall in suburban Virginia. From 1990 to 1996, he was a television host and writer for “The Urban Gardener.” From 2001-2007, he was a writer and editor at Prevention magazine. He has authored a number of professional books and articles. Perennially popular is Complete Guide to Choosing the Right Herbs. Prevention’s Guide to Healing Herbs (2000). His current history/genealogy project has been to organize the so-called Alien Rolls of London (ca. 1520-1820). These records mark the first appearance in England (and thence to America) of Sephardic Jewish families from Spain and Portugal which we think of today as “good old English stock,” such as Washington, Adams, Anderson, Drake, Davis and others.
Angela E. Watkins is Senior Associate Investigator.
Donald N. Yates, Ph.D. is Founder, Principal Investigator and Chief Scientific Officer. He lives in Longmont, Colorado with his wife Teresa and their very spoiled rescue shitzu named Boojah and lab-terrier mix Winston. His books and broadcasts have made forensic ancestry study an important tool alongside personal genomic analysis. His background in genealogical research and archives management as well as corporate communications and media contributed to a vision of DNA Consultants’ mega-site as “Home of the DNA Fingerprint Test,” complete with blog, news features, Facebook page, publishing arm, message boards, bookstore, YouTube channel, genealogical services and podcasts, with a growing catalogue of products, more then 550 world population pages and a relentless focus on customer service. Read news report, “DNA Consultants’ Forensic DNA Tests Earn High Marks” (May 4, 2022). Dr. Yates is Cherokee-Choctaw-Creek (among other Indian tribes) and English, Scottish and Irish (among other European nationalities). In his own Basic American Indian report he matches enrolled Cherokees from North Carolina in the number 3 spot. He matches Israeli and Sephardic Jews as well. His first book, published when he was an Indian college communications professor in Chicago, The Bear Went over the Mountain, is about his ancestors on the southeastern frontier beginning in colonial Virginia. Yates has documented that his Cherokee ancestors Chief Black Fox and Oconostota as well as many English and Scottish settler families in the seventeenth and eighteenth century were crypto-Jews. Perhaps his best-known academic publication is Old World Roots of the Cherokee: How DNA, Ancient Alphabets and Religion Explain the Origins of America’s Largest Indian Nation (Jefferson: McFarland, 2012). A popular Native American title is The Eighth Arrow: Wisdom and Storytelling from Tennessee’s Tihanama People (Longmont: Panther’s Lodge, 2018). His current research focus is on rare haplotypes traceable in world history and the Austronesian origins of Euchee and other American Indians. The Countercurrents of Prehistory: What Private Alleles and Rare Genes Can Say about Human Migrations was published in June 2025.
Donald N. Yates Official Bio Page
Donald Yates’ Author Central Page at Amazon
