How to Use genealogist in a Sentence

genealogist

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  • The breakthrough finally came on Monday, when the genealogist called Miller and confirmed that the test was a match.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
  • During one shoot, a genealogist showed her the Web site of a competitor, 23andMe.
    — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Soon afterward, Moore called the genealogist who had shown her the site, Katherine Borges.
    — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The genealogist then works to build a family tree of the suspect -- a process than can take months or even years, Weston said.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 10 July 2021
  • After more than three decades of working the cold case, police in May called on a genetic genealogist to help.
    — Stacia Glenn, The Seattle Times, 25 June 2018
  • That’s when the work for genealogists like McCarter begins.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 19 June 2023
  • Office’s forensic crime lab to use the same technique -- and the same genealogist -- that led to the 2018 arrest of the notorious Golden State Killer.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 12 July 2021
  • If there’s a partial match, genealogists create a family tree in hopes of putting a name to the unidentified DNA.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Other genealogists have noted that this price has increased over the years.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In the first episode of the new season, Sam and her brother visit a genealogist to learn about their family history.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Like many genealogists, her main tool was a website called GEDmatch.
    — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 10 June 2019
  • All was far from resolved when the site’s settings were restored, said Debbie Kennett, a genealogist in England, who wrote about the breach on her blog.
    — Heather Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2020
  • The archives are somewhat of a hidden treasure, well known to genealogists but not so much to the general public.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Aer Lingus will send you on a weeklong tour of Ireland to meet with a genealogist and dig into your ancestral past.
    — Mary Forgione, latimes.com, 19 June 2019
  • Over the rest of the year, Miller and an Othram genealogist searched through family trees, eventually finding a strong match in Ohio.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Another death soon demands the reporter’s attention: the hit-and-run killing of a genealogist.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Authorities said the decades-old homicides were cracked with the help of a forensic genealogist who used databases to connect DNA collected in the case to Phillips.
    — NBC News, 25 May 2021
  • All are welcome and can learn from expert genealogists.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com, 15 Sep. 2019
  • But the Tuckers have so far been unable to prove their claims to the satisfaction of most historians and genealogists.
    — USA Today, 22 Aug. 2019
  • To flesh out the search, Deal and the genealogists who assisted him had to go as far back as Maier’s great-grandparents and then work their way through myriad levels of first and second cousins.
    — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
  • With help from her husband, a friend who is an avid and skilled genealogist, and her own sleuthing skills, Ms. Shapiro tracked down her biological father.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
  • An amateur genealogist traced their lineage back 150 years to the same small town in Alabama.
    — Motez Bishara, CNN, 1 July 2019
  • The genealogists pieced together that Michalowska had been left in the box just two days before the liquidation of ghettos in that region.
    — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The webinars will range from guidance for novice genealogists to challenges faced by Black Americans and can be found here.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 27 June 2023
  • In 2020, police received help on the case from genealogist Eric Schubert.
    — Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Health care issues are important to Lana Leggett-Kealey, who works as a genetic genealogist.
    — Phil Galewitz | Kff Health News, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Unless the surname is unique, explained genealogist Kenyatta Berry, that likely wasn’t the case.
    — NBC News, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Those are questions that professional genealogist Megan Smolenyak has thought about for decades.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
  • In its first episode, Sam and her brother, Marion (Kevin Pollak), visit a genealogist.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2022
  • That spirit persists, said Amy Chin, a genealogist and the president of the board at Think!Chinatown, a nonprofit community group.
    — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022

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