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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In the case of Edwards, Beaumont detective Tina Lewallen and genetic genealogist Shera LaPoint helped create a family tree that led to a suspect named Clayton Foreman, who had grown up in Beaumont and attended the same high school as the victim, Edwards.
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Paige Harriss, ABC News, 7 Mar. 2025
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.
$305 worth of skincare products from Swiss brand INSTYTUTUM.
—Nicolas Vega, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2025
This development led law enforcement to collaborate with genealogists to reopen and continue investigating the cold case 16 years after the tragic event.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
But people who want access to the Library’s data must collect it via the API, a portal through which anyone, from a genealogist to an AI researcher, can download data.
—Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
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Paige Harriss, ABC News, 7 Mar. 2025
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.
$305 worth of skincare products from Swiss brand INSTYTUTUM.
—Nicolas Vega, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2025
This development led law enforcement to collaborate with genealogists to reopen and continue investigating the cold case 16 years after the tragic event.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
But people who want access to the Library’s data must collect it via the API, a portal through which anyone, from a genealogist to an AI researcher, can download data.
—Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
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“Genealogist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genealogist. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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