Family tree
From Fry Family Genealogy Wiki
A family tree is generally the totality of one's ancestors represented as a tree structure, or more specificaly, a chart used in genealogy. The purpose of the family tree is to show the family connections between individuals, consisting of the individuals' names (usually accompanied by dates, and often also places and occupations) connected by various types of line representing marriages, extra-marital unions, and progeniture. Some use the term only for charts showing strict patrilineal descent, although in common usage the term is used much more generally.
Family trees may also be called pedigree charts.
In situations where one is restricted to using plain text, it is often easier to show a person's ancestry using an Ahnentafel rather than a tree.
For a particularly complex example of a family tree, see family tree of the Greek gods.
The image of the tree probably originated with one in medieval art of the Tree of Jesse, used to illustrate the Genealogy of Christ in terms of a prophecy of Isaiah (Isaiah, 11, 1).
[edit] See also
- WikiProject Family Tree
- Consanguinity
- Genealogical numbering systems
- Family history
- GEDCOM
- List of family trees
- Wikipedia:Family trees
[edit] External links
Large Family Trees:
- Geni.com
- Tribal Pages Free Family Tree maker
- WeRelate.org -- (Largest wiki-based family tree with over 350,000 people)
Other wiki-based:
Other tools:
- FamilyPulse Upload your GEDCOM to create a family tree
- Famiva Free online genealogy and collaboration
- Family Tree Place
- ohile.com- a site to create your family tree and link with other family trees
- LostCousins
- Family History UK
- active Family Tree
- Family Echo -- Online tool for drawing family trees
