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genealogy

[jee-nee-ol-uh-jee, -al-, jen-ee-] / ˌdʒi niˈɒl ə dʒi, -ˈæl-, ˌdʒɛn i- /


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The technique, known as forensic investigative genetic genealogy, incorporates public genealogy websites with DNA analysis.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 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

Grandmothers have been prosecuted decades after pregnancy loss thanks to investigators using forensic genetic genealogy to hunt them down.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2025

The genealogy company entered his record into its vast online database, allowing him to view other users whose DNA closely matched his own.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2025

King Pelles stumped upstairs to do some biblical genealogy.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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