The word 'genealogy database' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a database of family and ancestry information, usually online or on a computer. For example: "I found a wealth of new information about my ancestors in a genealogy database."
In the 90s, there was a huge public outcry about Iceland's national genealogy database – a plan eventually quashed by the supreme court for violating the constitution.
We hand-collected data on the country of origin of a CEO's ancestors from ancestry.com, the world's largest genealogy database, which covers nearly 20 billion family histories.
Curious about our family's history, my siblings want to send samples of their DNA to a company that is building a genealogy database.
What they didn't initially reveal is how they first pinpointed DeAngelo as a suspect - turns out that was by accessing an online genealogy database.
Your unfinished PhD thesis, blockbuster novel or genealogy database would be worth a lot more because of the time and effort it would take to recreate it from scratch.
DeCode has used the money to assemble a genealogy database of 600,000 Icelanders dating back to the year 900.
More labs are also willing to help police departments turn crime-scene DNA into datab files compatible with online genealogy databases.
Geneticists use national genealogy databases to look for diseases that are unusually common in relatives — a sign that they share a mutation.
He got the Y chromosome's short tandem repeats and then went to genealogy databases and searched for men with those same repeats.
And our family ties to each other are becoming increasingly transparent in the era of mail-in DNA-testing services like 23andMe that purport to provide detailed data on shared bloodlines, and online genealogy databases that compile family super-trees that include millions of people from around the globe.
As genealogy databases and other resources improve, how can individuals be protected, and what are the implications?
