Associations to the word «Genealogy»

Wiktionary

GENEALOGY, noun. (countable) The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.
GENEALOGY, noun. (countable) A record or table of such descent; a family tree.
GENEALOGY, noun. (uncountable) The study, and formal recording of such descents.

Dictionary definition

GENEALOGY, noun. Successive generations of kin.
GENEALOGY, noun. The study or investigation of ancestry and family history.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope