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How to pronounce genealogy in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms family tree
Type of tribe, clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group
Has types descent, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock, blood, blood line, bloodline, ancestry, line, line of descent, lineage
Derivation genealogical, genealogist
Type Words
Type of discipline, field, field of study, subject, subject area, subject field, study, bailiwick
Derivation genealogic

Examples of genealogy

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Genealogy researchers have always passed around funny-name discoveries, he said.
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He also studied genealogy and traced his family history back to 1746 in England.
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The event is one of the monthly programs related to genealogy and local history.
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Tradition records the genealogy from Adnan to Muhammad comprises 21 generations.
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The last name in this genealogy was that of the founder of that particular clan.
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The centre shows exhibitions on migration and has a research hall for genealogy.
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Genealogy reveals the structure of family relationships among distant relatives.
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Like many Americans, Obama has traced the genealogy of his family back to Europe.
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The Internet brought greater opportunity for Melungeons to trace their genealogy.
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More examples
  • Successive generations of kin
  • The study or investigation of ancestry and family history
  • (genealogist) an expert in genealogy
  • Genealogy (from Greek: u03B3u03B5u03BDu03B5u03AC genea, "generation"; and u03BBu03CCu03B3u03BFu03C2 logos, "knowledge"), also known as family history, is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...
  • Michel Foucault's concept of genealogy is the history of the position of the subject which traces the development of people and society through history. His genealogy of the subject accounts for the constitution of knowledges, discourses, domains of objects etc. ...
  • There are various genealogies described in the Bible.
  • In philosophy, genealogy is a historical technique in which one questions the commonly-understood emergence of various philosophical and social beliefs by showing alternative and subversive histories of their development. ...
  • The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree; A record or table of such descent; a family tree; The study, and formal recording of such descents
  • (Genealogists) People who study family origins and the relationships between families.