Saturday, August 24, 2013

Family Tree


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Genealogical data can be represented in several formats, for example as a ancestry chart. Family trees are often presented with the oldest generations at the top and the newer generations at the bottom. An ancestry chart, which is a tree showing the ancestors of an individual, will more closely resemble a tree in shape, being wider at the top than the bottom. In some ancestry charts, an individual appears on the left and his or her ancestors appear to the right. A descendancy chart, which depicts all the descendants of an individual will be narrowest at the top.

 The longest family tree in the world is the one of a Chinese philosopher and educator Confucius  and he is the descendant of King Tang . The tree spans more than 80 generations, and includes more than 2 million members. An international effort involving more than 450 branches around the world was started in 1998 to retrace and revise this family tree. Now day many companies make money trying to create a persons family tree, people want to know where they come from and who are their ancestors. Thats a big reason why many companies as ancestry.com have had success.

A family tree, or pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. The more detailed family trees used in medicine and social work are known as genograms.

Source:WIKIPEDIA.COM

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