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The first known use of fingerprinting was in 9th century China, where merchants applied their fingerprints to documents authenticating a record of debt. It was not until the end of the 19th century that was adopted by investigators of crime.

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The first documented fingerprints were taken in India in 1858 by Sir William J. Hershel.not long after that around the turn of the 20th centurySir Edward Henry devised a classification system that is still being used today

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Well actual fingerprinting started in Persia in the 1400's but forensic finger printing started in the 1800's like to keep records or to find your print at a crime seane

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1892, by Juan Vucetich.

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1983

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