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unusual facts about genealogy


Social history of Canada

It is quite separate from Genealogy, though often drawing on the same primary sources such as censuses and family records.


Academia Mexicana de Genealogía y Heráldica

Since its establishment, delegates from the Academia Mexicana de Genealogía y Heráldica had attended to many international congresses of Genealogy and Heraldry, among others, the most important are the International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, the Congreso Iberoamericano de las Ciencias Genealógica y Heráldica and the Reunión Americana de Genealogía.

Adolphe Vorderman

In a 2007 episode of the BBC genealogical documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, Carol Vorderman researched her great grandfather Adolphe.

Áedán mac Gabráin

The Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd records him as a descendent of Dyfnwal Hen of Alt Clut, though the genealogy is much confused (Gauran is given as his son, rather than father).

Ancestry Magazine

Ancestry Magazine was a general interest genealogy magazine owned by Ancestry.com Operations Inc. The magazine received a 2009 Gold Eddie Award in the enthusiast category for its article, The Man (or Woman) Who Would Be King.

Anders Hackzell

The cultural importance of the Bure family genealogy in Sweden is demonstrated e.g. by the novel The Knight Templar trilogy by Jan Guillou, which in part compares with the early Bure family ancestry.

Arcangelo Corelli

Contemporary documents in the Piancastelli collection in Forlì provide valuable background information about the genealogy and character of the Corelli family.

Arthur Kurzweil

His interest in genealogy coincided with the release of Alex Haley’s book Roots: The Saga of an American Family and Catching the Wave in 1976.

Avis Stearns Van Wagenen

In 1892, she became interested in the genealogy of the Stearns family through Dr. Bond's Genealogies and the History of Watertown and authored several books on the history of her family who were early settlers in the United States and arrived on the Mayflower.

Ælla of Deira

The manuscripts of Matthew Parker, and their dependent copies, preserve the following genealogy of Ælla: "Ælla was the son of Yffe, the son of Uxfrea, the son of Wilgisl, the son of Westerfalca, the son of Sæfugl, the son of Sæbald, the son of Segegeat, the son of Swebdæg, the son of Sigegar, the son of Wædæg, the son of Woden."

Bernard Burke

Continuing the strong family tradition of genealogy and heraldry, another of Burke's sons, Sir Henry Farnham Burke, would eventually rise to the office of Garter Principal King of Arms.

Brutus of Troy

A variant version of the Historia Britonum makes Brutus the son of Ascanius's son Silvius, and traces his genealogy back to Ham, son of Noah.

Bure kinship

The cultural importance of the Bure family genealogy in Sweden is demonstrated e.g. by the novel The Knight Templar trilogy by Jan Guillou, which in part compares with the early Bure family ancestry.

Cathy Bursey-Sabourin

Designed by her the maple leaf emblem symbolizing Ottawa, in an arrangement with two smaller leaves representing the two sciences - genealogy and heraldry - was an official emblem of the 22nd International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences held in 1996 in Ottawa.

Chavundaraya

The 10th century Algodu inscription of the Mysore district and the Arani inscription from the Mandya district provide more information on the family genealogy of Chavundaraya.

Coefficient of relationship

The contribution to r from common ancestors of 20 generations ago (corresponding to roughly 500 years in human genealogy, or the contribution from common descent from a medieval population) falls below one part-per-million.

Cycles of the Kings

It was part of the duty of the medieval Irish bards, or court poets, to record the history of the family and the genealogy of the king they served.

Daniel Shanahan

His major works include Towards a Genealogy of Individualism (University of Massachusetts Press, 1992) and Language, Feeling and the Brain (Transaction Publishers, 2007) Waiting for Something That Never Arrived: Meditations on a Progressive America in Honor of Tony Judt (Togga, 2011) and Sparky's Folks: A Tribute to the Life and Work of Charles Schulz (Togga, 2012).

David O. Sacks

In 2006, Sacks founded Geni.com, a genealogy website that enables family members to collaboratively build an online family tree.

Gaius Asinius Rufus

Chris Bennett, Egyptian Royal Genealogy - Ptolemaic Dynasty, 2005.

Gilbert Belnap

Descendants of Gilbert Belnap now number over 10,000 and are found in most states and several countries outside the U.S. The Belnap Family Organization, a non-profit ancestral family organization, conducts primary genealogical research and preserves genealogical and other historical information on behalf of descendants of Gilbert Belnap and his wives Adaline Knight and Henrietta McBride and others surnamed Belnap or Belknap.

Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

To date, the curriculum has included the "Learning For Letters" Mishnayos Program, dedicating a Sefer Torah in memory of the one million martyred children, a family genealogy project, and five published textbooks which discuss the pre-Holocaust life.

James, Duke of Rothesay

Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy

John Eddowes Bowman the Elder

His education was only that of a grammar school, but he was a bookish boy, and got from his father a taste for botany, and from his friend Joseph Hunter, then a lad at Sheffield, a fondness for genealogy.

John Gage Rokewode

Many papers by him appeared in Archaeologia, many of these being republished as separate pamphlets, including the description of the Benedictionals of St. Æthelwold and of Robert of Jumieges; he also printed the genealogy of the Rokewode family with charters relating thereto in Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, II.

John Hotaling

After a year of employment, Hotaling traveled to Europe; visiting Antwerp, Rotterdam, and other European cities, possibly while doing genealogy research.

Keikavus

He tells about the genealogy of his father, saying that he was an descendant of Arghush Farhadan, the king of Gilan, who lived during the time of Kai Khosrow.

Korran

Korran and his father Pittan are mentioned as part of a genealogy of Chera kings in the Pugalur inscriptions of Karur district in the 2nd century AD, the ancient capital of the Chera dynasty.

Ladislaus Sunthaym

Sunthaym worked on a history and genealogy of the Babenberg family until 1489, perusing the histories of Otto von Freising and Thomas Ebendorfer.

Library damage resulting from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

A team from the National Library of Indonesia visiting in January 2005 was able to salvage only three books and one sheet of the genealogy of the Muslim kings of Aceh.

Marriage license

Mark D. Herber, Ancestral Trails - The complete guide to British genealogy and family history, Sutton Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0-7509-1418-1

Mobile Public Library

The Local History and Genealogy Division includes works by local authors, Mobile histories, periodicals, Mobile newspapers on microfilm from 1819 to the present, city directories from 1837 onward, federal census records for most of the Southeastern United States, and the Mobile Historic Development Commission's survey of historic architecture in Mobile with 10,000 images stored and indexed on CD-ROM.

Mount Pleasant Towne Centre

The shopping center is home to over 65 national and local retail stores such as Men's Wearhouse, Old Navy, Gap, Genealogy Boutique, and Coldwater Creek.

Pecoraro

There is the possibility this name was also derived from a locality, that of Pecorara, in the Province of Piacenza, Italy.

Pelagius of Oviedo

In the sixteenth century Ambrosio de Morales discovered a manuscript titled "Many Genealogies of the Scripture until Our Lady and Saint Anne", a genealogy of the Virgin Mary and Saint Anne ascribed to Pelagius, in the cathedral library of Oviedo.

Perizzite

The Canaanite tribe settled in the south of Canaan between Hor and Negev, although it is not mentioned in the genealogy in Gen. x.

Potlatch

For some cultures, such as Kwakwaka'wakw, elaborate and theatrical dances are performed reflecting the hosts' genealogy and cultural wealth.

Procurator fiscal

A procurator fiscal is appointed to the Court of the Lord Lyon, which is a civil and criminal court dealing with Scottish heraldry and genealogy in Scotland.

Saba Mahmood

She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2005) in which she theorizes the concept of habitus from a genealogy that begins with Aristotle and extends into the Islamic tradition.

Sainty

Guy Stair Sainty (born 1950), art dealer and author on royal genealogy and heraldry

Sergey Aksakov

According to the Velvet Book of Russian genealogy, the Aksakovs trace their male line to Šimon, a Varangian nephew of Haakon the Old, who settled in Novgorod in 1027.

Society of Australian Genealogists

The Society of Australian Genealogists was founded in 1932 in Sydney, New South Wales, to further the interests and education of its members in genealogy.

Springer Hoax

The Springer Hoax was a scam starting in the mid 19th century, often using a phony genealogy in various ways to collect money based on the supposed estate of prominent colonialist Carl Christopher/Christoffersson Springer and debts said to be owed to him by various government agencies of Wilmington, Delaware and Stockholm, Sweden.

Surajmal Misrana

The word Vans means genealogy and Bhaskar means the sun, hence Vans Bhaskar is intended to be a chronicle of the Hada Chauhan dynasty, who claimed to originate from the sun.

Sylvia Legris

While feminism and eastern thought are components of her intellectual genealogy, her most disciplined activity of textual study has been a sustained reading of Paul Celan.

Todd Joseph Miles Holden

His mother, Nancy Holden, attended the original Little Red School House in New York City, and later earned an MS. A career educator, she founded a program for special needs children in Los Angeles and has been active as board member and president of various Jewish genealogy societies.

Zadok

(2 Samuel 8:17; 1 Chronicles 24:3) The lineage of Zadok is presented in the genealogy of Ezra (his descendant) as being of ninth generation of direct patrilineal descent from Phineas the son of Eleazar; Ezra 7:1, see 1 Chronicles 5:30 where he is placed ninth in descent from Phineas.


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