genealogistn.
/dʒiːnɪˈalədʒɪst//dʒɛnɪˈalədʒɪst/ One who traces the descent of persons, or who is interested in the study of genealogies.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > genealogy as study > [noun] > genealogist
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1605 W. Camden Remaines i.125 Likewise Ralph Gernon marrying the daughter of Cavendish..left that name to his issue, as Th: Talbot, a learned Genealogist hath prooved.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 543 A great Genealogist.
1698 J. Vanbrugh Æsop iii. xv Sir, I'm a genealogist.
1725 London Gaz. No. 6382/3 The Genealogist of the Order [of the Bath].
1804 W. Tennant Indian Recreat. (ed. 2) I. 120 A person versant in their family genealogy, is employed by the parents on both sides..the rank and merits of each family, are fully discussed by these genealogists.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xx. 514 One old man, who appeared a perfect genealogist, illustrated the successive possessors by bits of stick driven into the ground.
1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxv. 304 The most expert genealogist could not have made a family-tree out of such materials.
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