Genealogy
* Describes the naturalization process.
* Genealogies are a feature of Genesis
  - can help to establish identity
* Greek word which means to trace ancestry or roots.
* Many genealogies are documents loaded with vital statistics.
* Some genealogies go so far as to establish the English or Dutch origins of a family.
* also covers the study and research of pedigrees.
* attempts to find and disclose the relations of power that are taken for granted or hidden.
* becomes the history of a race after a few centuries.
* branch of historical research.
* can be an aerobic sport
  - many things to many people
* connects past, present, and future into one.
* continuous story that never ends.
* descendents list with anecdotes.
* diverse field.
* feast or famine sort of hobby.
* gives legitimacy and respectability to the institution of nobility.
* growing past time for many people both in the States and in Europe.
* helps people discover who they are.
* hobby that is about enjoyment
  - requires persistence, luck and more than a little patience
* hot topic on the Internet.
* is about both sets of genes, our mothers and fathers
  - sharing
  - working back from known facts
  - all around the world
* is an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor
  - addiction
  - admirable hobby or profession
  - effort to introduce the present to the past
  - another branch of history
  - as old as the Bible
  - both a study of history and a resolution of one's personal quest
  - central to the church belief that families can be united in the afterlife
  - discipline
  - important to our history
  - meant to deliver a moral message
  - more than identifying our ancestors
  - much more than names and dates, births, marriages, deaths and burials
  - names, dates and places
  - no longer the collection of names and dates, but rather a history of people
* is one of the fastest growing hobbies and businesses
  - hobbies in the United States
  - hobbies in the world
* is one of the most popular reasons for online usage today
  - uses of the Internet right now
  - world s most popular hobbies
  - people collecting people
  - sanitized history
* is the basic part of family history
  - drama of ordinary people doing ordinary and extraordinary things
  - fastest growing hobby in the western world
  - first cousin of history, and it is closely related to geography
  - recording of the pedigree of a person or family over a number of generations
* is the science of family history research
  - studying and pursuing ones ancestry
* is the second most popular hobby in America and one of the fastest growing
  - on the Web
* is the study and tracing of families
  - of ancestry, or the record of descendants from an ancestor
* is the study of family history and the discovery of one's roots
  - history, and for many it is an interesting hobby
* is the study of one's ancestry
  - family roots or origins
  - ones ancestry, or more simply, tracing one's family heritage
* is the study of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor
  - of persons from their ancestors
  - world's most popular hobby
* list of ancestors of the author
  - descendents plus some anecdotes
* living science.
* methodical study that seeks to document lines of descent of a family or families.
* never ending history of families and their lives.
* never-ending process that started long ago, and part of all our lives.
* often depends upon an exchange of information.
* provides a way to see ancestors as more than entries on a family tree.
* quest for our roots and our place in history.
* record of a person's ancestors
  - ancestors, or descendants
* replaces that sense of bonding with place, history and society.
* seeks to reestablish the systems of subjugation, the h azardous play of dominations.
* sees the development of humanity as a series of interpretations.
* study of our biological lineage and our family history.
* subject that really comes alive with alot of people involved.
* underlies our concepts of diachronic and synchronic classification.
* unique topic of study in education in that it incorporates nearly every content area.
* uses both text and diagrams mainly consisting of rondels connected by double lines.