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Ms. Mazzeo alternates between the macro and micro, now giving us detailed genealogies, now discussing the shipbuilding industry and the place of women in 19th-century society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

And finally, as I worked out by tracing genealogies, when nobody was left alive to remember them, the dead person turned into a butterfly, a memory without a rememberer.

From Scientific American • Jan. 5, 2023

The first recorded texts include genealogies, accounts of heroic and everyday actions by human beings, and legal codes.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

The whole movie was a visual feast, with bright costumes and playful dance numbers, and it never explained the puzzling genealogies of its characters.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2020

To these four volumes there was added in Westmarch a fifth containing commentaries, genealogies, and various other matter concerning the hobbit members of the Fellowship.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien