(n.) One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families.
Example Sentences:
(1) He brought his own perspective to it: for instance, I’d worked with pearls in a classical way before I met Lee, but then with him we took a pearl and set it into a taxidermied pheasant’s claw, and made an earring.” Joyce was also a keen amateur genealogist, who could trace her family back to the Huguenots who had settled in Spitalfields.
(2) Countless writers, historians, academics, genealogists and amateur and professional researchers are engaged, variously, in telling the stories of Australia with the help of Trove and the window it opens on to 370,000,000-plus items, including books, photographs, maps, databases, letters, diaries and much else besides .
Genealogy
Definition:
(n.) An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.
(n.) Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was concluded that, when coupled with genealogical information, assays of alpha-glucosidase in extracts of lymphocytes were useful for identifying heterozygous individuals with a reasonably high degree of probability.
(2) The genealogic inquiry dealth with 46 members of 5 generations.
(3) This genealogical reconstruction is a strong argument in favor of the genetic homogeneity of MyD in the SLSJ region.
(4) ++Clinico-genealogical and structural-dynamic analyses were made of endogenous psychoses, paranoid in structure under conditions of their accumulation in an isolated population.
(5) It is hoped that agreement can be reached as to bacteriologic genealogy; perhaps then the specific pathogenic manifestations will be clarified.
(6) The genealogies vary in tree topology and in branch lengths.
(7) The results of genealogical investigation are presented.
(8) Analysis of the genealogic tree of the complete family groups showed that the apoprotein (apo) AIMilano is transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait, all carriers coming from a single mating couple, living in the eighteenth century.
(9) The genealogical reconstruction showed that 15 of the 57 obligate carriers of the HH gene could be traced back to a unique ancestor in the 18th century.
(10) Sister sites Friends Reunited Dating and Genes Reunited, a genealogy service, will remain subscription-based, charging £49.50 and £9.95 respectively for a six-month subscription.
(11) These findings, supported by simulation results, allow one to apply the theoretical results of the coalescence process directly to the allelic genealogy.
(12) The present study data confirm the concept, formed on the basis of genealogical analysis, that genetical factors involved in the determination of MZ and DZ multiple birth are of definitely common character.
(13) To compute the likelihood for a sample of unrecombined nucleotide sequences taken from a random-mating population it is necessary to sum over all genealogies that could have led to the sequences, computing for each one the probability that it would have yielded the sequences, and weighting each one by its prior probability.
(14) Age changes in the pubic symphyses of 142 Cayo Santiago rhesus monkeys (known age, sex and maternal genealogy) are described.
(15) Features of the structure of the ancestral genealogy are thereby illuminated, and the dependence and interactions between founders with regard to the descent of their genes to the current population may be quantified.
(16) The occurrence of both types of isopranyl glycerol ethers in methanogenic bacteria supports the proposal that they have a close genealogical relationship to the extremely halophilic and thermoacidophilic bacteria.
(17) Analysis of the patterns of segregation in the metastatic tumor cells permitted the development of a genealogy of tumor progression in this patient and the development of a model of tumor progression which describes the accumulation of selectively neutral and advantageous segregations in metastatic tumor cells.
(18) In our study, the genealogic evaluation includes asymptomatic subjects with microangiopathy.
(19) However, the concordance between genealogical relationship and multivariate genetic divergence in morphology is much more complex.
(20) The data obtained demonstrate heterogeneity of this form of childhood schizophrenia, confirmed as well by genealogical studies in a comparative age aspect.