Genealogy
noun
The study or tracing of family lines or history.
She spent years studying her family's genealogy.
Often appears as...
- family genealogy
- genealogy research
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Academic
noun
A written family history.
He compiled a detailed genealogy of his ancestors.
Often appears as...
- write a genealogy
- detailed genealogy
noun
The study or tracing of family lines or history.
She spent years studying her family's genealogy.
Often appears as...
- family genealogy
- genealogy research
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A written family history.
He compiled a detailed genealogy of his ancestors.
Often appears as...
- write a genealogy
- detailed genealogy
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Pro Tip 1/3Academic Field
Treated as a scholarly subject, often researched in libraries and archives.
She obtained a degree in genealogy.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Context
Genealogy can reveal social status and property inheritance patterns in history.
The genealogy showed that his ancestors were nobles.
Pro Tip 3/3DNA Genealogy
Modern genealogy often includes DNA testing to determine ancestry.
Her DNA genealogy report showed diverse ethnic roots.
Pro Tip 1/3Academic Field
Treated as a scholarly subject, often researched in libraries and archives.
She obtained a degree in genealogy.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Context
Genealogy can reveal social status and property inheritance patterns in history.
The genealogy showed that his ancestors were nobles.
Pro Tip 3/3DNA Genealogy
Modern genealogy often includes DNA testing to determine ancestry.
Her DNA genealogy report showed diverse ethnic roots.
Pro Tip 1/3Academic Field
Treated as a scholarly subject, often researched in libraries and archives.
She obtained a degree in genealogy.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Context
Genealogy can reveal social status and property inheritance patterns in history.
The genealogy showed that his ancestors were nobles.
Pro Tip 3/3DNA Genealogy
Modern genealogy often includes DNA testing to determine ancestry.
Her DNA genealogy report showed diverse ethnic roots.
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Medicine's future?...
introduced because we both knew Linda av one of the founders of the first online personal genomic companies and because we shared our genetic information with Linda she could see that Harriet and I shared a very rare type of mitochondrial DNA haplotype K 1 a 1 B 1 a which meant that we were distantly related we actually shared the same genealogy with
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The world's largest...
full of cousins. And some of them are going to be great, and some of them are going to be irritating, but they're all related to me. So this email inspired me to dive into genealogy, which I always thought was a very staid and proper field, but it turns out it's going through a fascinating
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein...
women and says you guys know who this is right and we're all sitting there like awkwardly and she goes this is nancy grace roman this is the mother of the hubble telescope right so it was also important because she was giving us a lesson in genealogy in astronomy and and
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A Visual History of...
We can see trees being used to map consanguinity, the various blood ties between people. We can also see trees being used to map genealogy, perhaps the most famous archetype of the tree diagram. I think many of you in the audience have probably seen family trees.
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Wade Davis: Cultures at...
We traced genealogies back eight generations, and we found two instances of natural death and when we pressured the people a little bit about it, they admitted that one of the fellows had gotten so old that he died getting old, so we speared him anyway.
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A genealogical journey PIPE...
I learned family history can help you better understand yourself others in the past but it is critically important for another reason from the human genome project to the plur if eration of genealogy sites we are discovering our
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Fossil Record Mystery PIPE...
different species of dinosaur toy a nutrition by studying these finds we'll be able to understand the whole picture of dinosaur evolution they're very exciting discoveries the scientists begin to unravel the genealogies of
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Barry Schuler: An...
You can do a very simple scrape your cheek; send it off. You can find out where your relatives come from; you can do your genealogy going back thousands of years. We can understand functionality. This is really important.
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Steve Silberman: The...
while the reality of autism was much more colorful and diverse. Some kids couldn't talk at all, while others waxed on at length about their fascination with astrophysics, dinosaurs or the genealogy of royalty.
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How we're building the...
It involves curiosity, non-insignificant levels of self-indulgence and is centered around recording the reproductive activities of other people. Of course, I'm talking about genealogy --
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Medicine's future?...
introduced because we both knew Linda av one of the founders of the first online personal genomic companies and because we shared our genetic information with Linda she could see that Harriet and I shared a very rare type of mitochondrial DNA haplotype K 1 a 1 B 1 a which meant that we were distantly related we actually shared the same genealogy with
Video examples
The world's largest...
full of cousins. And some of them are going to be great, and some of them are going to be irritating, but they're all related to me. So this email inspired me to dive into genealogy, which I always thought was a very staid and proper field, but it turns out it's going through a fascinating
Video examples
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein...
women and says you guys know who this is right and we're all sitting there like awkwardly and she goes this is nancy grace roman this is the mother of the hubble telescope right so it was also important because she was giving us a lesson in genealogy in astronomy and and
Video examples
A Visual History of...
We can see trees being used to map consanguinity, the various blood ties between people. We can also see trees being used to map genealogy, perhaps the most famous archetype of the tree diagram. I think many of you in the audience have probably seen family trees.
Video examples
Wade Davis: Cultures at...
We traced genealogies back eight generations, and we found two instances of natural death and when we pressured the people a little bit about it, they admitted that one of the fellows had gotten so old that he died getting old, so we speared him anyway.
Video examples
A genealogical journey PIPE...
I learned family history can help you better understand yourself others in the past but it is critically important for another reason from the human genome project to the plur if eration of genealogy sites we are discovering our
Video examples
Fossil Record Mystery PIPE...
different species of dinosaur toy a nutrition by studying these finds we'll be able to understand the whole picture of dinosaur evolution they're very exciting discoveries the scientists begin to unravel the genealogies of
Video examples
Barry Schuler: An...
You can do a very simple scrape your cheek; send it off. You can find out where your relatives come from; you can do your genealogy going back thousands of years. We can understand functionality. This is really important.
Video examples
Steve Silberman: The...
while the reality of autism was much more colorful and diverse. Some kids couldn't talk at all, while others waxed on at length about their fascination with astrophysics, dinosaurs or the genealogy of royalty.
Video examples
How we're building the...
It involves curiosity, non-insignificant levels of self-indulgence and is centered around recording the reproductive activities of other people. Of course, I'm talking about genealogy --
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Rory Bremner
British Comedian
Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch.
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Jesmyn Ward
American Novelist
It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees. Official census records, used by so many genealogy enthusiasts to piece together their families' pasts, don't include our non-European ancestors.
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Xavier Woods
American Wrestler
One of the things that's interesting about black culture is we don't know about our heritage and about our genealogy because it was taken from us. So all that we have is we're black. That's where we start.
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Bob Edwards
American Journalist
But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
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Julie Payette
Canadian Politician
My dad, who likes genealogy, knows who was the first guy that came from France in 1655, and the guy settled in Montreal, and Montreal is an island where the city is in Quebec.
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Henry Louis Gates
American Critic
There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.
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Gina McKee
English Actor
A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley
American Writer
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.
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Tariq Ali
Pakistani Historian
The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
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Daniel Dennett
American Philosopher
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
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Rory Bremner
British Comedian
Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch.
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Jesmyn Ward
American Novelist
It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees. Official census records, used by so many genealogy enthusiasts to piece together their families' pasts, don't include our non-European ancestors.
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Xavier Woods
American Wrestler
One of the things that's interesting about black culture is we don't know about our heritage and about our genealogy because it was taken from us. So all that we have is we're black. That's where we start.
Quote examples
Bob Edwards
American Journalist
But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
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Julie Payette
Canadian Politician
My dad, who likes genealogy, knows who was the first guy that came from France in 1655, and the guy settled in Montreal, and Montreal is an island where the city is in Quebec.
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Henry Louis Gates
American Critic
There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.
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Gina McKee
English Actor
A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.
Quote examples
Marion Zimmer Bradley
American Writer
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.
Quote examples
Tariq Ali
Pakistani Historian
The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
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Daniel Dennett
American Philosopher
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
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