genealogy

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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

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

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

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

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2025

He was an encyclopedia when it came to Xhosa genealogy and told me facts about my father that I had never known.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela