genealogy
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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
Investigators used genetic genealogy to identify Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. as the Golden State Killer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 80s.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
Looming behind the bluesman is a blackboard, on which a genealogy of the blues has been chalk-drawn in an orderly hand.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
Grandmothers have been prosecuted decades after pregnancy loss thanks to investigators using forensic genetic genealogy to hunt them down.
From Slate • Aug. 23, 2025
She ridiculed her own attempts at genealogy; the family tree was wintry and bare, as well as rootless.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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