The phrase "an effort to trace" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing attempts to follow or identify the origin, path, or history of something.
Example: "The researchers made an effort to trace the lineage of the ancient artifact back to its original creator."
Alternatives: "a attempt to track" or "an endeavor to follow".
North Yorkshire Police have studied CCTV footage and interviewed Miss Roberts' friends in an effort to trace her last movements.
The access was part of an effort to trace money that investigators believed might be linked to financing of terrorism.
Mexican officials are also pleased that the administration is making more of an effort to trace guns.But some big issues remain unresolved.
agents, in an effort to trace guns to a network based in Arizona, did not quickly intervene as the weapons were smuggled over the border to Mexico.
"We are questioning them in an effort to trace those who orchestrated the suicide attack," a police official, Naeem Khan, told The Associated Press.
A police spokesperson said more than 630 calls had been made in an effort to trace Alice, but appealed to the public to come forward with any CCTV footage they think could be relevant.
There are problems associated with any effort to trace the pedigree of cultural evolutionary theories back to Darwin himself.
His middle period, the quarter-century that begins with the publication of "A Question of Upbringing" in 1951, was given over to "A Dance to the Music of Time," an ambitious effort to trace the fortunes of a group of schoolmates from their adolescence at the outbreak of World War I to old age in the Britain of the early 1970's.
We propose a two-step control strategy with an initial effort to trace, quarantine, and selectively give prophylactic treatment to contacts of the first 100 to 500 cases.
To stop it will require an intense effort to trace all those who have come into contact with infected people.
While the Cradle collection is not the most extensive in the nation, it is an impressive effort to trace the history of flying and Long Island's role in it.
