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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.] 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. 2. Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: genealogy n : successive generations of kin [syn: {family tree}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own
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