genealogies
Recorded ancestral lines
Genealogies is the plural of genealogy—the study or record of family descent and lineage.
A genealogy traces who descended from whom, mapping ancestors and descendants across generations: She spent years researching her family's genealogies.
The word also applies to the history or development of anything: the genealogies of ideas, the genealogy of a musical genre.
Those from whom one descends
- descendantsThose who come after
- progenitorsOriginal ancestors of a lineage
- forebearsAncestral family members
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
generations · offspring · progeny · clan · dynasty · forefathers · foremothers · kinfolk
Long-established customs passed down
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- legacyWhat's passed down
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
identity · ethnicity · nationality · culture · homeland · diaspora · migration · oral-history
Stored data or albums
- archivesStored historical documents
- censusOfficial population count
- certificatesOfficial proof documents
- willsLegal inheritance documents
deeds · microfilm · courthouse · obituaries · naturalization · interviews · documentation · heraldry
Reproductive cultivation of organisms
- purebredOf single breed ancestry
- thoroughbredOf pure ancestral line
- stockGoods kept for sale
- strainExcessive stretching force
registries · studbooks · sires · dams · bloodlines · heredity · linebreeding · outcrossing
First biblical book
- ChroniclesTwo Old Testament histories
- begatsProduces offspring, biblically
- patriarchsMale ancestral leaders
- matriarchsFemale family rulers
ancestors
Those from whom one descends
- descendantsThose who come after
- progenitorsOriginal ancestors of a lineage
- forebearsAncestral family members
bloodline · generations · offspring · progeny · clan · dynasty · forefathers · foremothers · kinfolk · tribe
traditions
Long-established customs passed down
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- legacyWhat's passed down
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
folklore · identity · ethnicity · nationality · culture · homeland · diaspora · migration · oral-history · birthright
records
Stored data or albums
- archivesStored historical documents
- censusOfficial population count
- certificatesOfficial proof documents
wills · deeds · microfilm · courthouse · obituaries · naturalization · interviews · documentation · heraldry
breeding
Reproductive cultivation of organisms
- purebredOf single breed ancestry
- thoroughbredOf pure ancestral line
- stockGoods kept for sale
strain · registries · studbooks · sires · dams · bloodlines · heredity · linebreeding · outcrossing · papers
Genesis
First biblical book
- ChroniclesTwo Old Testament histories
- begatsProduces offspring, biblically
- patriarchsMale ancestral leaders
matriarchs · David · Jesus · Adam · Abraham · scriptural · Torah
- Japanese recordswar tales, government records, official reports, land surveys, registers
- Greek mythologyZeus, Athena, Apollo, Hera, Poseidon
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- family recordsbirth certificates, birth certificate, family trees, death certificate, birth records
- historical documentsDeclaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, Emancipation Proclamation, Federalist Papers
- historical recordsdiary, census record, annual reviews, letter, government records
genealogiesautobiographies
Self-narrated life accounts
character studies · case studies · biographies · memoirs · personal memoirs
genealogiesrootlessness
State of having no anchor
anonymity · disconnection · orphanhood · erasure · oblivion
- genealogical treeDiagram showing ancestral relationships
- genealogical recordsDocuments tracing family lineage
- genealogical chartDiagram tracing bloodlines