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

More than genealogy, the term signals a moral orientation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

John said TV programmes and genealogy companies "drive this theory that every outcome is good, that you'll find war heroes... or a suffragette, but lots of people don't."

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2025

Julia Masli, the comic behind the captivatingly bizarre “ha ha ha ha ha ha ha,” may be from Estonia, but in clown genealogy she is a close relation to Andy Kaufman’s Latka.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025

He was an encyclopedia when it came to Xhosa genealogy and told me facts about my father that I had never known.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela