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genealogical

ADJECTIVE
ancestral
Synonyms
STRONGEST
familial tribal
WEAK
affiliated born with congenital consanguine consanguineous in the family inborn inbred inherited innate lineal maternal old past paternal running in the family totemic
ADJECTIVE
hereditary
Synonyms
STRONGEST
genetic inborn transmitted
WEAK
ancestral bequeathed family handed-down heritable inbred inheritable inherited lineal maternal paternal patrimonial traditional transmissible willed
Antonyms
STRONGEST
acquired
ADJECTIVE
patrimonial
Synonyms
WEAK
affiliated born with congenital consanguine consanguineous familial hereditary in the family inborn inbred inherited innate lineal maternal old past paternal running in the family

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Genealogical site Ancestry.com revealed on Monday that the two writers descend from “a 17th century English immigrant” who settled in Windsor, Conn.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2024

Genealogical research that once required years can be done in minutes today.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

“When you’re a family historian or genealogist, it’s all about the census,” said Powell, president of the Central Florida Genealogical Society.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2022

Taneya Koonce, president of the Nashville chapter of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society, said she would be online early Friday looking for records of her grandparents, who lived in North Carolina.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

It is a certificate of good birth more satisfactory than any which the Heralds' College or the Genealogical Association can furnish.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard

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