genealogy

In recent years, when a new break in a cold case makes headlines, it’s often because of updated genealogy tools or forensic detection technology.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

More than genealogy, the term signals a moral orientation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

Julia Masli, the comic behind the captivatingly bizarre “ha ha ha ha ha ha ha,” may be from Estonia, but in clown genealogy she is a close relation to Andy Kaufman’s Latka.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 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

She ridiculed her own attempts at genealogy; the family tree was wintry and bare, as well as rootless.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

An investigation by Reuters released Tuesday into the genealogies of “America’s political elite” found that President Joseph R. Biden and all former presidents still alive are direct descendants of slaveholders.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 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

Nietzsche and his radical historicism used genealogies to draw meanings in a world thought of a void of objective meanings.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

They took turns reciting Homeric genealogies, full of falsifications and borrowings from real life, and sometimes they fought over this or that favorite real uncle or aunt, and had to bargain like casting directors.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides