family tree

Example Sentences

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Finn and his Danish relatives had similar physical characteristics to the UK couple - light eyes and brown hair, an extended family tree showed.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

He joined Team Italy in 2023 to honor his Italian grandfather, then spent the next few years championing the squad to anyone he could find with an Italian branch on their family tree.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

From there, investigators can sometimes find distant relatives to help piece together a family tree that can point to a suspect.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

And the number of links and social connections in the sport can build a sprawling curling family tree.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

That one branch of the family tree had begun to own the term ‘popular’ was to many classical music aficionados in itself a revealing and disturbing fact of life.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall