According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

Such theorists find narrative ( or, following Nietzsche and Foucault, genealogy ) to be a helpful tool for understanding ethics because narrative is always about particular lived experiences in all their complexity rather than the assignment of an idea or norm to separate and individuated actions.

Although genealogy information described in Shaku Nihongi leaves room for discussion, many scholars acknowledge the blood relationship with the Okinaga clan, a powerful local ruling family or the collateral line of the Imperial family-governed Oumi region ( a part of present-day Shiga Prefecture ).

Herodotus actually mentions Hecataeus in his Histories, on one occasion mocking him for his naive genealogy and, on another occasion, quoting Athenian complaints against his handling of their national history.

The " Book of Jasher ", published in the 17th century, provides some new names for Japheth's grandchildren not seen in the Bible or any other source, and provided a much more detailed genealogy ( see Japhetic ).

A second royal genealogy exists for a line, perhaps of kings, descended from Cynfarch Oer's brother: Elidir Lydanwyn.

When the Nazis placed Stravinsky's works on the list of " Entartete Musik ", he lodged a formal appeal to establish his Russian genealogy and declared, " I loathe all communism, Marxism, the execrable Soviet monster, and also all liberalism, democratism, atheism, etc .." Towards the end of his life, at Craft's behest, Stravinsky made a return visit to his native country and composed a cantata in Hebrew, travelling to Israel for its performance.

Cladistics, a modern form of systematics research, is based exclusively on demonstrable features of living and fossil animal groups ( taxa ) for reconstructing the genealogy of a species or group.

The Cherokee Heritage Center, of Park Hill, Oklahoma hosts a reproduction of an ancient Cherokee Village, Adams Rural Village ( including 19th-century buildings ), Nofire Farms, and the Cherokee Family Research Center for genealogy.

* Putnam County, TNGenWeb-free genealogy resources for the county

* Clay County, TNGenWeb-free genealogy resources for the county

* Montgomery County, TNGenWeb-free genealogy resources for the county

This is a genealogy for the main characters from Terry Brooks ' Shannara series of fantasy novels.

However, when new names for fields of study are coined in modern English, the formations ending in-logy almost always add an-o -, except when the root word ends in an " l " or a vowel, as in these exceptions: analogy, dekalogy, disanalogy, genealogy, genethlialogy, herbalogy ( a variant of herbology ), idealogy ( a misspelling of ideology ), mammalogy, mineralogy, paralogy, pentalogy, petralogy ( a variant of petrology ), tetralogy ; elogy ; antilogy, festilogy, trilogy ; palillogy, pyroballogy ; dyslogy ; eulogy ; and brachylogy.

To an extent, Valaquenta gives a meaning or a ' genealogy ', or both, to many scenes in the larger Quenta Silmarillion ; it is a virtual ' list of players ' for important parts of that ensuing drama, which drama itself ( as a collection of mythic tales ) provides a foundational background for the world that comes after ( in particular for those stories comprising the more widely known histories of Middle-earth, including The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings ).

A closer look at this intertextual link reveals that Shakespeare used, for instance, Plutarch ’ s assertion that Antony claimed a genealogy that led back to Hercules, and constructed a parallel to Cleopatra by often associating her with Dionysus in his play.

Many of NARA's most requested records are frequently used for research in genealogy.

In the early 20th century, the archaeologist R. A. Stewart Macalister said that it was " very popular " for earlier writers to ascribe a Middle Eastern or Central Asian genealogy to the peoples of Ireland or Britain.

Hyginus ' genealogy expresses the position of Phoroneus as one of the primordial men, whose local identities differed in the various regions of Greece, and who had for a mother the essential spirit of the very earth of Argos herself, Argia.

The Naiads were either daughters of Poseidon or various Oceanids, but a genealogy for such ancient, ageless creatures is easily overstated.

( See Sceafa for discussion of the section of this genealogy in which Annar appears.

A late 13th century genealogy of her family listed her as 13 years old in the spring of 1137.

In modern times, genealogy became more widespread, with commoners as well as nobility researching and maintaining their family trees.

All evidence and conclusions, together with the documentation that supports them, is then assembled to create a cohesive genealogy or family history.

Most genealogy software programs can export information about persons and their relationships in a standardized format called " GEDCOM " In that format it can be shared with other genealogists, added to online databases, or converted into family web sites.

In China, India and other Asian countries, genealogy books are used to record the names, occupations, and other information about family members, with some books dating back hundreds or even thousands of years.

McNutt says, " It is probably safe to assume that sometime during Iron Age I a population began to identify itself as ' Israelite '", differentiating itself from the Canaanites through such markers as the prohibition of intermarriage, an emphasis on family history and genealogy, and religion.

" This " Israel " was a cultural and probably political entity of the central highlands, well enough established to be perceived by the Egyptians as a possible challenge to their hegemony, but an ethnic group rather than an organised state ; Archaeologist Paula McNutt says: " It is probably ... during Iron Age I a population began to identify itself as ' Israelite '," differentiating itself from its neighbours via prohibitions on intermarriage, an emphasis on family history and genealogy, and religion.

It was part of the duty of the medieval Irish bards, or court poets, to record the history of the family and the genealogy of the king they served.

Further muddying the waters, according to the genealogy of the extant Miyamoto family, Musashi was born in 1582.

His family possessions such as furniture, weapons, genealogy, and other records were left with his sister and her husband, Hirao Yoemon.

The journalist Mary Annette Pember notes that identifying with Native American culture may be a result of a person's increased interest in genealogy, the romanticization of the lifestyle, and a family tradition of distant Native American ancestors.

The chart below shows the abbreviated genealogy of Tamar and her family, tracing it from Tamar's grandfather to her grandchildren.

Her academic education was limited to arithmetic, her family genealogy, grammar, history, reading, spelling, and writing.

After retiring from politics, he wrote a three-volume genealogy of the Wentworth family in the United States.

Even though the Bruneian royal family stressed more the theories of Malay Islam Berajaملاي إسلام براج, but they didn't disagree with it ; obviously they gave him positive criticism, and recorded Ong Sum Ping under the genealogy of the Sultans of Brunei.

For a more complete genealogy including ancestors and descendants, see House of Wessex family tree.

Ignatios's biographer argues that Photios forged a document relating to the genealogy and rule of Basil's family, and had it placed in the imperial library where a friend of his was a librarian.

The brotherhood groups would link their names to a family tree, in essence manufacturing a genealogy based on names rather than blood, and taking the place of the kinship organizations commonly found in China.

Much of that work has been establishing the genealogy and history of the sultans and royal family.

George Kett's son, also George, was mayor of Cambridge on three occasions and compiled a genealogy of the Kett family.

The family name is derived from a 15th or 16th century ancestor, Roman Vasilyevich Monastïryov, who was mentioned in the Velvet Book, the 17th century genealogy of Russian boyars.

* Alvarado family genealogy

* Alvarado y Contreras family genealogy