So lets define genealogy?
Simply put Genealogy is the study of a family’s lineage. People often use genealogy to trace out their ancestry and build up family trees, or simply to find a specific person in a family’s past and connect him or her to other members of that family. Genealogy is interested solely in who is in a family and who they are related to, as opposed to the more general study of family history, which might also track dates of birth and death, occupations held by family members, and other important facts about their lives and deaths. While some people, on occasion, refer to this larger field as genealogy.
Genealogy is not a modern day craze, though it could appear that way with the help of the internet. It was a very important field in the past as genealogy, enabled family connections between nobility were crucial to the idea of inheritance and the passing down of titles and rulership. Take a king as an example of this, if he had no direct heir to the thrown, the next closest heir would have to be found. Detailed genealogical records ensured that the passing down of titles would never have to rely on incomplete facts. Despite this, many differing genealogies would often crop up, allowing multiple people to lay claim to a title of rulership or inheritance.
Until recently genealogy was the main word used for researching ancestors, it seems in recent times the word ancestry has come to the fore, mainly due to the large and well know web sites exploring genealogy, and maybe because its a term that’s less defined these days.
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