genealogy
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Last month, the city announced the identity of a previously unknown victim of the terrorist attacks - the 1,654th person - using a new technology called forensic investigative genetic genealogy - or FIGG.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Over the years, we have received valuable assistance from people with an interest in genealogy and family history who have taken the time to research family trees and share information with our investigators,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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
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
Like family genealogy, such an explanation would fall under Handsome’s Inconsequential and Boring Bits category.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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
Michel Foucault argued that tracing genealogies can help us expose shameful origins of practices and ideologies that foster oppression.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
The whole movie was a visual feast, with bright costumes and playful dance numbers, and it never explained the puzzling genealogies of its characters.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2020
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
Vocabulary lists containing genealogy
It's All in the Family
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "G"
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We the People: Gen
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