Lineage vs. Genealogy — What's the Difference?

Direct descent from a particular ancestor; ancestry.

Genealogy (from Greek: γενεαλογία genealogia "study of family trees") is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members.

Derivation.

A record or table of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; a family tree.

The descendants of a common ancestor considered to be the founder of the line.

Direct descent from an ancestor; lineage or pedigree.

Variant of linage.

The study or investigation of ancestry and family histories.

The number of lines of printed or written material.

(countable) The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.

Payment for written work at a specified amount per line.

(countable) A record or table of such descent; a family tree.

Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

(uncountable) The study, and formal recording of such descents.

(advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.

An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.

A fee or rate paid per line of text.

Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.

Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

Successive generations of kin

The descendants of one individual;

The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

The number of lines in a piece of printed material

A rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted

Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline