How to Use genealogist in a Sentence

genealogist

noun

• The rarity of the names has turned out to be almost the only break that has gone the way of the genealogists searching for descendants.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2018
• 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 hired by Klass later found records linking his father to the U.S. in the required timeframe.
  — Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 17 May 2024
• 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
• The hope is that one day, nature lovers, history buffs, genealogists and the curious will walk the trail and ponder the stories that comprise the area's past.
  — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 5 May 2017
• That’s when the work for genealogists like McCarter begins.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], 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
• Laura Lucas, a Pompano Beach genealogist who has an aunt and cousins buried at the cemetery, volunteered to comb through records to research who might be buried in the field.
  — Anne Geggis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 June 2017
• 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
• With the help of a genealogist, Johnson said, detectives looked for families living in the area who had daughters between 16 and 19 years old and whose racial and ethnic backgrounds matched the girl's.
  — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 21 Apr. 2024
• 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
• But historians, preservationists and genealogists contend that many graves, particularly those of African Americans, were left behind and paved over as the property was turned over to business and industry.
  — Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024