genealogy
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As the APD released the podcast in June, detectives were testing the DNA using new forensic genealogy technology, and the programme updated listeners about other new lines of enquiry.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
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
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
“But thanks to investigative genetic genealogy, we were able to resolve this mystery and provide some answers to everyone involved in this case.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
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
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
Michel Foucault argued that tracing genealogies can help us expose shameful origins of practices and ideologies that foster oppression.
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
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It's All in the Family
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