genealogist
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- noun
- /ˌdʒiːniˈɑːlədʒɪst/
- One of them was a well-known professional genealogist and author, Kimberly Powell.
- historians and genealogists
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Watch on YouTubeI spoke with Luxembourgian genealogists and Burmese archivists and I pissed a lot of people off in the process.
- I spoke with Luxembourgian genealogists and Burmese archivists and I pissed a lot of people off in the process.
Examples
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Every community has genealogists, many of whom are willing to share their materials with budding family history researchers.
Academic text (2014) -
Take this seal to Geoffrey of Monmouth, the court genealogist.
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The Mother: I went to a genealogist once.
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But what is a genealogist?
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Sometimes people wonder if there won't be a need for professional genealogists in the future.
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Recognizing the value of these materials, genealogists frequently use them in tracing family histories.
Academic text (1993) -
And even individual census records are made public 72 years after they're collected, to the delight of historians and genealogists.
Academic text (2010) -
Hubbard recalled how Goode, the genealogist, knew the older man's pedigree better than he did himself.
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An unlikely teaming of coroners and genealogists is working together to find the families of the unclaimed.
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A genealogist helped me trace my family's ancestry back to the 1800s.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Genealogist comes from Greek parts: genea- meaning 'family' and -logist meaning 'one who studies', like a biologist who studies life. So a genealogist is someone who studies family history and traces where people in a family came from.