Genealogy \Gen`e*al"o*gy\, n.; pl. Genealogies. [OE.
   genealogi, genelogie, OF. genelogie, F. g['e]n['e]alogie, L.
   genealogia, fr. Gr. ?; ? birth, race, descent (akin to L.
   genus) + ? discourse.]
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   1. An account or history of the descent of a person or family
      from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their
      children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.
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   2. Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor;
      pedigree; lineage.
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	genealogy
    n 1: successive generations of kin [syn: genealogy, family
         tree]
    2: the study or investigation of ancestry and family history

	

	GENEALOGY. The summary history or table of a house or family, showing how 
the persons there named are connected together. 
     2. It is founded on the idea of a lineage or family. Persons descended 
from the common father constitute a family. Under the idea of degrees is 
noted the nearness or remoteness, of relationship, in which one person 
stands with respect to another. A series of several persons, descended from 
a common progenitor, is called a line. (q. v.) Children stand to each other 
in the relation either of full blood or half blood, according as they are 
descended from the same parents, or have only one parent in common. For 
illustrating descent and relationship, genealogical tables are constructed, 
the order of which depends on the end in view. In tables, the object of 
which is to show all the individuals embraced in a family, it is usual to 
begin with the oldest progenitor, and to put all the persons of the male or 
female sex in descending, and then in collateral lines. Other tables exhibit 
the ancestors of a particular person in ascending lines both on the father's 
and mother's side. In this way 4, 8, 16, 32- &c. ancestors are exhibited, 
doubling at every degree. Some tables are constructed in the form of a tree, 
after the. model of canonical law, (arbor consanguinitatis,) in which the 
progenitor is placed beneath, as if for the root or stem. Vide Branch; Line. 
	

	GENEALOGY, n.  An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did
not particularly care to trace his own.