genealogy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the study or investigation of ancestry and family history

   I did a genealogy of my relatives.

2. 2
   noun

   successive generations of kin

   My family has a long genealogy.

3. 3
   noun

   The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.

   The book significantly extends on Rosenstein’s monumental 1990 work, “The Unbroken Chain,” which focused on the genealogies of the major Ashkenazi rabbinic dynasties from medieval times to the present.

4. 4
   noun

   A record or table of such descent; a family tree.

From Middle English genealogie, genologie, genelogie, from Old French genealogie (Modern French généalogie), from Late Latin genealogia, from Ancient Greek γενεαλογία (genealogía), from γενεά (geneá, “generation, descent”) and -λογία (-logía, “study of”).

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