genealogy
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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
“But thanks to investigative genetic genealogy, we were able to resolve this mystery and provide some answers to everyone involved in this case.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 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
She ridiculed her own attempts at genealogy; the family tree was wintry and bare, as well as rootless.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
An investigation by Reuters released Tuesday into the genealogies of “America’s political elite” found that President Joseph R. Biden and all former presidents still alive are direct descendants of slaveholders.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
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
The first recorded texts include genealogies, accounts of heroic and everyday actions by human beings, and legal codes.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Their respective genealogies also created temperamental and stylistic contrasts.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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It's All in the Family
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We the People: Gen
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