family tree

Example Sentences

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BBC Sport sits down with the 32-year-old, and speaks to his father Makasi, to piece together a tale of power, betrayal and survival which reads more like a political thriller than a family tree.

From BBC

After my mom died, there were even more people in the family tree who could have laid claim to the candlesticks, but they are in my dining room, because I was my mom’s eldest daughter.

From MarketWatch

Then genealogists build family trees from often distant connections, like cousins or uncles, to help identify people.

From Seattle Times

In our series of letters from African journalists, Maher Mezahi writes about what looking for the branches of his family tree has taught him.

From BBC

An exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View has a “family tree” of dozens of the valley’s companies with roots in Fairchild.

From Washington Post