what is geneology????

Answer 1

The study of where you came from..your family line. Tracing back names and such. You can find out some pretty interesting things about yourself when you study this!

Answer 2

Gene research:
Whereby one may note DNA testing
and add lineages to a genealogy database,
based upon percentage matches.

Some examples:
99.9% father of [name of individual]
0.23% Native American

Until the word is in commonly understood
use, add the notation (sic: not genealogy)
after the word.

There is a difference between Genealogy,
Family History, and Geneology.

Those tracking direct ancestors/descendants,
by blood lines, are doing Genealogy Research,
and some of those people are doing Geneology.

Those tracking family members are doing Family Research.
And, family research would include step-parents, those
people sealed by LDS ordinances, etc.

Sometimes, the word geneology is used to clue other
researchers that Genealogy composes the database,
rather than Family Research.

You'll probably note, as I have, that the word
is often used as misspelled genealogy.
And, that assumption is furthered on this website:
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/ologies.htm

(http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/
gswithenbank/ologies.htm)

The site is McAfee certified-safe to click on,
but the links in Yahoo answers often are clipped-off
at the end. So use the copy/paste method to get there.

Also, just on the aside:
Gerontology is the "study of the process of aging,"
not "characteristics of aging," which is too narrow
a definition. (Just happened to see that on the above
site. Thank you.)

P.S.
"sic" is a common abbreviation,
and no, I do not like it, but it is what it is, which is
a way to eliminate an easy misunderstanding.

Thank you for asking!

Answer 3

As you've already had the definitive answer from HSK's mama, I'll give you my version.

Genealogy is a serious addiction that will cause you to spend a small fortune buying software, online database subscriptions, BMD certificates, CD's of parish records, and ultimately transatlantic airfares just so you can visit a lichen-encrusted gravestone in the pouring rain having walked 12 miles to an English village because the buses only run twice a week, and all this after many nights of no sleep as you keep clicking "next" to pages of search results on the IGI and Ancestry. After 10 years of this, and reaching serious brickwalls on all your lines, you will start volunteering to help other people find their ancestors just so you can keep finding things. You'll mumble "ag lab" in your sleep.

You have been warned.

Answer 4

Genealogy is the study of your unique family history. It is a personal record of your ancestors -- when they were born and where they lived, who their children were and who they married, and where you belong in your extended family tree.

The word genealogy is derived from the Greek, and means the study of family history and descent. Genealogies, or the recorded histories of the descent of a person or family from their ancestors, are also often referred to as family trees or sometimes as lineages or pedigrees.

The basic objectives of genealogical research are to identify ancestors and their family relationships. At a basic level you will identify and record the following for each individual in your family tree:

date and place of birth
names of parents
date and place of marriage
names of children
date and place of death

From here you will, through your genealogical research, learn more about the lives and times of your ancestors and put the fact together into a family history.

Answer 5

It's actually the family tree, filled with some family history from as far in the past as you want or can get.

Answer 6

It is the study of family. It includes famil tree, a guide or a picture of family members

Answer 7

your family history.