Study of family tree

Usage examples of genealogy.

Maeve seemed strangely interested in the intricacies of the Mac Ard genealogy and asked several questions, but Jenna was bored.

White House memoirists do, to give the last four hundred years of my genealogy.

The early theorists of the juridical foundations of the modern state conceive of this as an originary appeal to a supreme power, but the theory of imperial command has no need for such fables about its genealogy.

The anthropogony of the Bible is merely a genealogy of a swarm escaping from the human hive which settled on the mountainous slopes of Thibet between the summits of the Himalaya and the Caucasus.

I accordingly took the opportunity to explain that I myself was in Monte Carlo for reasons connected with the Daffodil settlement, that I had been commissioned by Clementine to investigate the genealogy of the Palgrave family, and that by a curious coincidence my researches had led me to the South of France.

There was even an ancient duplicate of that yellow tattered scroll royally, reconfirming lands and title to John, the most distinguished of all the Caradocs, who had unfortunately neglected to be born in wedlock, by one of those humorous omissions to be found in the genealogies of most old families.

Where birth is respected, unactive, spiritless minds remain in haughty indolence, and dream of nothing but pedigrees and genealogies: the generous and ambitious seek honour and authority, and reputation and favour.

But this class is, due to the unregulated proliferation of semi-fictional genealogies, exactly congruent to almost the entire population of Averidan.

As always, he talked in the broad, flowery language of the antismoking lobby, but was polite enough to tread carefully around words like evil and murder in deference to my genealogy.

Sanchoniathon, and in the Grecian Genealogy of the Gods given by Hesiod.

Most experts feel that it violates the basic Halachic values that stress genealogy and family integrity.

He derived his descent from the family of the Prophet, and the race or tribe of Hashem, in witness of which genealogy he wore a green turban of large dimensions.

European reconstructionists, of whom Smith and Best were the chief, calculated that the main body of Maori tribal ancestors had arrived in the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, because the count-back of generations in the chiefly genealogies, calculated at twenty-five years to a generation, established those dates.

They took turns reciting Homeric genealogies, full of falsifications and borrowings from real life, and sometimes they fought over this or that favorite real uncle or aunt, and had to bargain like casting directors.

I know it all, except his long genealogies and his historical tirades, which fatigue the mind and do not touch the heart.