Just found this odd bit of news on Whitley Strieber's site:
Adopted girl traces bio family, discovers she's a princess.

Sarah Culberson says, "I never dreamt something like this could happen." ...Culberson grew up in Virginia after being adopted as an infant by Jim and Judy Culberson.

Her adoptive father, Jim, is a professor of neuroanatomy at West Virginia University, where her mother Judy is a special education teacher. The Culbersons adopted Sarah two days after her first birthday and raised her along with two other daughters. Sarah has been working in Los Angeles as an actress and dance instructor.

She learned of her royal heritage with the Mende tribe only two years ago after a private investigator helped her locate her father in Bumpe, Sierra Leone. The news, she said was shocking: Her father, Joseph Konia Kposowa, was a member of the ruling family of the Mende tribe in the southern province of Sierra Leone. She was, by birthright, a princess.

and, from Newswise:

When she returned to America, she wanted to do something to make a difference in Sierra Leone, so she established the non-profit Kposowa Foundation to raise funds to help rebuild the Bumpe school. The renovated school will be a place students can also live while they learn, she said.

“We’re all in the world together,” Culberson said. “If one part of the world is off balance, it affects everything else. I wanted to do something that was going to make a long-term difference and leave a lasting contribution.”

Which is nice.

It seems likely the private detective used one of these DNA databases mentioned elsewhere on Strieber's site.

Every now and then, I think about what a Chinese DNA database would do for (and to) our family, since if any nation on earth is likely to create a genetic catalogue of all its citizens, it's China.

And here's an example of one kind of thing that DNA index could do.

Using a home testing kit, users send a cheek swab to African Ancestry, which sequences a portion of the genetic material and matches it to a database that contains genetic information for about 90 African tribes living in countries that once engaged in slave- trading, such as Senegal, Mali and Nigeria. Rick Kittles, the company's co-founder, says they can match 85-90% of the test users.

...For Anglos who don't want to be left out, Oxford Ancestors can trace the ancestors of people of European descent to the seven maternal clans that gave rise to all Europeans over the past 150,000 years.

These are just the things that are *currently* available. In 10 years? Things'll be a lot more precisely focused.