genealogy

Applicants must provide official documents - online genealogy sites can't be used as sole proof, the spokesperson cautioned.

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

Working with the FBI, Arlington police had finally solved the crime that summer through genetic genealogy, matching the killer’s DNA to relatives in a public database.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

While law enforcement did not get any hits in the federal database, they are also employing genetic genealogy in an effort to identify a suspect in the case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

Looming behind the bluesman is a blackboard, on which a genealogy of the blues has been chalk-drawn in an orderly hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

No. He answered his own question aloud, and took from his pocket the heavy pages he had cut from the Bible, all written over with the names of his genealogy.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Ms. Mazzeo alternates between the macro and micro, now giving us detailed genealogies, now discussing the shipbuilding industry and the place of women in 19th-century society.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

What Mesoamerican civilization created a complex writing system for recording its history and genealogies?

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

And finally, as I worked out by tracing genealogies, when nobody was left alive to remember them, the dead person turned into a butterfly, a memory without a rememberer.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2023

The whole movie was a visual feast, with bright costumes and playful dance numbers, and it never explained the puzzling genealogies of its characters.

From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2020

Their respective genealogies also created temperamental and stylistic contrasts.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis