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Then he decided to find a soldier to research genealogically, selecting a random grave in Normandy marked by a Latin cross.

From New York Times • May 24, 2022

As Green and Torrey traced Pointer’s family forward in time, James Fisher was tracing his family backward, with the help of his genealogically savvy partner, Tanya Gaskins Hardy.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2021

For example, one grandmother is half Norwegian, so genealogically my daughter is one-eighth Norwegian.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2013

From 1731 it was determined genealogically that it was in fact the French noble House of Goyon Matignon that ruled as Prices of Monaco until 1949.

From Time • Aug. 14, 2013

The sum of the genealogically connected similar individuals constitutes the species, which thus has an actuality and ground of distinction not shared by genera and other groups which were not supposed to be genealogically connected.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 by Various