genealogy

I first met the Westerinen family in 1999 as a graduate student in New York City, writing my thesis on the rise of genetic genealogy.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

“I saw him in the genealogy room earlier.”

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

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

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

She also sought out the children of Alegría Busbib Bengio, a prominent figure in the city’s Jewish community, who spent the last years of her life handwriting family genealogies and making dresses.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2022

Michel Foucault argued that tracing genealogies can help us expose shameful origins of practices and ideologies that foster oppression.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

To these four volumes there was added in Westmarch a fifth containing commentaries, genealogies, and various other matter concerning the hobbit members of the Fellowship.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien