Pedigree vs. Genealogy — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pedigree and Genealogy
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Pedigree
A line of ancestors; a lineage.
Genealogy
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.
Pedigree
A list of ancestors; a family tree.
Genealogy
A record or table of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; a family tree.
Pedigree
A chart of an individual's ancestors used in human genetics to analyze Mendelian inheritance of certain traits, especially of familial diseases.
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Genealogy
Direct descent from an ancestor; lineage or pedigree.
Pedigree
A list of the ancestors of a purebred animal.
Genealogy
The study or investigation of ancestry and family histories.
Pedigree
A continuous history or series of precedents, especially considered as evidence of respectability or legitimacy
"The practice of larding legislation with special interest lucre has, of course, a lengthy pedigree in American politics" (Jonathan Chait).
Genealogy
(countable) The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.
Pedigree
A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
Genealogy
(countable) A record or table of such descent; a family tree.
Pedigree
A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
Genealogy
(uncountable) The study, and formal recording of such descents.
Pedigree
(uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry.
Genealogy
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.
Pedigree
The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.
Genealogy
Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.
Pedigree
The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse.
Genealogy
Successive generations of kin
Pedigree
Having a pedigree.
Pedigree
Purebred.
Pedigree
(transitive) To determine the pedigree of (an animal).
Pedigree
A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.
Alterations of surnames . . . have obscured the truth of our pedigrees.
His vanity labored to contrive us a pedigree.
I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees.
The Jews preserved the pedigrees of their tribes.
Pedigree
A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.
Pedigree
The descendants of one individual;
His entire lineage has been warriors
Pedigree
Line of descent of a pure-bred animal
Pedigree
Ancestry of a purebred animal
Pedigree
Having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal
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