genealogist
noun
ge·ne·al·o·gist
ˌjē-nē-ˈä-lə-jist 
also -ˈa-lə-,
also ˌje-nē-
: a person who traces or studies the descent of persons or families
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The $25,000 offering will see a genealogist build the nominee’s family tree back several generations and then walk them and their family through the findings.
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Nicolas Vega, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2025
After that case, several consumer DNA websites changed their terms of service to disallow law enforcement from accessing data, or to allow its users to opt out of law enforcement activity, according to genetic genealogist Leah Larkin, who testified in the hearing last month.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
Sixteen years later, police officers teamed up with a genealogist who use advanced technology to identify the killer.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
One of Larsen’s biographers, George Hutchinson, uncovered a passenger manifest that recorded Larsen’s travel from Denmark, and a Danish genealogist, Shari Jensen, discovered that Larsen’s relatives lived in Copenhagen at the same address as the relatives of the fictional Helga.
—Ethelene Whitmire, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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Nicolas Vega, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2025
After that case, several consumer DNA websites changed their terms of service to disallow law enforcement from accessing data, or to allow its users to opt out of law enforcement activity, according to genetic genealogist Leah Larkin, who testified in the hearing last month.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
Sixteen years later, police officers teamed up with a genealogist who use advanced technology to identify the killer.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
One of Larsen’s biographers, George Hutchinson, uncovered a passenger manifest that recorded Larsen’s travel from Denmark, and a Danish genealogist, Shari Jensen, discovered that Larsen’s relatives lived in Copenhagen at the same address as the relatives of the fictional Helga.
—Ethelene Whitmire, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Genealogist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genealogist. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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