1. For the genealogist, however, the principal value of the returns lies in the help they provide in tracing elusive ancestors.

2. Many genealogists are surprised to find that some of the most basic information is not on the Internet.

3. Dante for a genealogist, and could reckon back to the Divine Comedy.

4. However, genealogist George Ott investigated the claim, failed to substantiate it and said he believes it to be false.

5. Tony Burroughs, a genealogist who wrote Black Roots: A Beginners Guide to Tracing the African American Family, cautions people to avoid jumping straight into DNA testing.

6. The findings — uncovered by Megan Smolenyak, a genealogist,[/genealogist.html] and The New York Times — substantiate what Mrs. Obama has called longstanding family rumors about a white forebear.

7. "It is common to find people of French Canadian descent to be related to large numbers of other French Canadians," said genealogist Christopher Child, who conducted the research.

8. "It is not unusual to find family members on different ends of the political spectrum," said Anastasia Tyler, an Ancestry.com genealogist.

9. The Naked Cowboy is not at all interested in genealogy, though. In that, he is a typical child of a genealogist .

10. Misha Defonseca acknowledged her bestselling Holocaust story as a fake after a genealogist outed her.

11. A man, too, who could boast of Dante for a genealogist, and could reckon back to the Divine Comedy.

12. It is a fact of some interest to the local historian and genealogist, nothing more.