Galton's classification system and started the Henry Classification System which is still used to this day. Throughout the beginning of the 1900's, fingerprinting began its journey into existence of the U.S. legal system and military branches. By 1971, the FBI had a rough 200 million prints that were manually maintained by the government. Since 1999, the FBI has stopped using paper fingerprint cards (except in some criminal files) and will eventually have transferred all paper prints to a digital print on computers. Though fingerprints have been used for thousands of years, the pre
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