Definition of genealogist
:a person who traces or studies the descent of persons or families
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Linda Abrams, a forensic genealogist who has been working on and off with the Hunley Project since 2006, says all of the crew member skeletons were in good shape when they were excavated from the Hunley’s interior.
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Genealogical libraries like the Newberry in Chicago, Allen County Library in Fort Wayne, Ind., and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library in Madison are popular sites that draw genealogists from a wide area.
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So Scharf reached out to Colleen Fitzpatrick, a forensic genealogist based in California.
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The center will be staffed by a team of experienced genealogists and historians to digitize records, present online research tutorials and produce scholarly articles.
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The material — comprising photographs, city directories, newspaper clippings, restaurant menus, oral histories and other assorted ephemera — is used by historians, researchers and genealogists.
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Laura Lucas, a Pompano Beach genealogist who has an aunt and cousins buried at the cemetery, volunteered to comb through records to research who might be buried in the field.
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On a recent Sunday afternoon, a group of church members met with Colleen Greene, genealogist and academic librarian at Cal State Fullerton, who helped them make sense of their test results.
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For nearly 14 years, scientists, historians and a genealogist have studied the first submarine to sink an enemy vessel.
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