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family tree

noun

a genealogical chart showing the ancestry, descent, and relationship of all members of a family or other genealogical group.

family tree

a chart showing the genealogical relationships and lines of descent of a family Also calledgenealogical tree

First recorded in 1800–10

Half a century ago the family tree was consigned solely to paper.

She comes from a deeply religious background, which has four nuns and two priests in the family tree.

If he had known his family tree, his parents could have said, ‘You’re going to seminary.

And her husband is an Italian count with Agnellis on his family tree.

Across the corporate family tree, the staff of The Wall Street Journal must hold their noses and put it into print.

The greater part of these were cousins, and they gave very detailed family-tree tracings in support of their claims.

Mappo was going down, right away, to the ground and get a drink at a water-pool near the family tree.

Mrs. Fane was no longer able to put him off with contradictions and vagueness: Michael demanded his family tree.

What became of the junior scions of the family-tree was to him a matter of secondary consideration.

To trace their family tree back to transplantation at period of Conquest, played out.

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