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The FBI reached out almost a decade later after learning I had been tracing our family history for a book I was writing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

By the time I read Arthaud, I had been tracing this history in colonial-era and medical archival sources in Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and South America for years.

From Slate • Sep. 4, 2023

Since then, it said it had been tracing the arms, checking with governments and suppliers.

From Reuters • May 23, 2022

Linda pointed out that for decades a man named Brice McAdoo Clagett — a lawyer who died in 2008 — had been tracing the Clagett lineage.

From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2020

The night was warm and clear—the moon very bright—her window commanded a view of scenes she had been tracing in the daytime with Miss Clare.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles