| Ancestry is an important component of the biological profile that estimateshow an individual may have been perceived in life, and therefore aids in identification. Forensicanthropologists often combine both metric and nonmetric methods to increase overall accuracy. Few address the perceived comparabilityof thesemethods,however.This project compares ancestry estimationsof individualsfrom the Ada County Coroner’s Office in Boise, Idahousing several modern techniquesand softwareprograms. Metric and morphoscopicdata were analyzed using FORDISC 3.1 (Jantz and Ousley 2010a), Optimized Summed Scoring Attributes (Hefner and Ousley 2014), Discriminant Function Analyses (Hefner 2015) and (hu)MANid(Berg and Kenyhercz 2017). Allmethods employed for this collection generatedincomparable estimations. Discrepancies werelikely due to the lack of standardizationin reference collectionsand statistical techniques used for method creation.Continuing to build databanks of recent and diverse populations wouldelevate medico-legal study and allowfurther evaluation of multi-method analyses. Key Words: ancestry estimation, forensic anthropology, coroner’s office, manufactured collection, method comparability, FORDISC 3.1, OSSA scores, (hu)MANid, observer error, discriminant function analyses |