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Family tree representations
Genealogical data can be represented in several formats, for example as a pedigree or ancestor 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.
Family tree displaying an ancestor chart of Sigmund Christoph von Waldburg-Zeil-Trauchburg
Family trees can have many themes. One might encompass all direct descendants of a single figure, or all known ancestors of a living person. Another might include all members of a particular surname (e.g. male-line descendants). Yet another approach is to construct a tree including all holders of a certain office, such as kings of Germany. This relies on dynastic marriage to hold together the links between dynasties.
The image of the tree probably originated with one in medieval art of the Tree of Jesse[citation needed], used to illustrate the Genealogy of Christ in terms of a prophecy of Isaiah (Isaiah, 11, 1). Possibly the first non-Biblical use, and the first to show full family relationships rather than a purely patrilineal scheme, was that involving family trees of the classical gods in Boccaccio's Genealogia deorum gentilium (On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles), whose first version dates to 1360.[citation needed]
Ahnenblatt Family Tree
The longest family tree in the world today is that of the Chinese philosopher and educator Confucius (551 BC-479 BC), and he is the descendant of King Tang (1675 BC-1646 BC). 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. The latest findings will be published in 2009 by the Confucius Genealogy Compilation Committee to coincide with the 2560th anniversary of the birth of the Chinese thinker. This latest edition is expected to include some 1.3 million living members who are scattered around the world today.
Another very old and extensive tree is that of the Lurie lineage which includes Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, Rashi, Hezekiah and traces at least back to King David born c.1037 BC .
See also
Ahnentafel
Genealogy software
Cousin chart (Table of consanguinity)
Genetic genealogy#Genetic similarity among relatives (for general genetic similarity)
Genealogical numbering systems
Genogram
List of family trees
Pedigree chart
Wikipedia:Family trees
References
^ Confucius family tree has two million members from China Daily
^ Bill Gladstone (October 24, 2004). "The oldest family in the world". JTA. http://jta.org/news/article/2004/10/24/12092/FromKingDavidtoF.
^ Neil Rosenstein, Ranan R. Lurie. The Lurie Legacy: The House of Davidic Royal Descent. ISBN 9781886223172.
External links
Media related to Family trees at Wikimedia Commons
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