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
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
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
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
King Pelles stumped upstairs to do some biblical genealogy.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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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