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The 47 pages that link to Genealogy, each with the reason it gives.

• Historical demographyRelated: Family reconstructions can reveal household structure and fertility patterns in past populations.

• Archival researchRelated: Census, vital, and estate records make archives a major resource for family history.

• GriotsRelated: Genealogies are a central form of knowledge maintained and recited by griots.

• Ancestor venerationRelated: Genealogies identify the dead who are remembered and establish links between generations.

• Medieval historiographyRelated: Genealogical histories legitimized dynasties by linking rulers to distinguished ancestors.

• PatrilinealityRelated: Genealogies can validate claims to patrilineal membership and status.

• TheogonyRelated: Divine parentage and succession structure the poem’s account of cosmic order.

• ClanRelated: Genealogies can express and preserve a clan's account of shared ancestry.

• MahāvaṃsaRelated: Dynastic succession supplies a framework for much of the chronicle’s political narrative.

• OnomasticsRelated: Personal names can help trace family relationships across historical records.

• Kinship terminologyRelated: Genealogical links provide one basis for distinguishing relatives in a terminology.

• Tree of lifeRelated: Branching form gives the tree a natural visual language for ancestry.

• National Museum of African American History and CultureRelated: Family research resources help connect historical records with individual and community histories.

• The History of SexualityRelated: Foucault uses it to question the apparent naturalness of modern sexuality.

• Epic of SundiataRelated: Genealogical passages connect Sundiata’s story to dynastic legitimacy.

• Priestly sourceRelated: Genealogies are a conspicuous organizing device in Priestly narrative.

• One-drop ruleRelated: Tracing family descent could expose ancestry that the rule treated as decisive.

• SurnameRelated: Genealogical records use surnames to trace family lines, with important limitations.

• The Secret History of the MongolsRelated: Lineages organize the chronicle’s account of ancestry, legitimacy, and succession.

• Alex HaleyRelated: Haley framed Roots as a reconstruction of his own family’s ancestry.

• Gesta DanorumRelated: Dynastic descent links legendary ancestors to the historical kings in Saxo’s narrative.

• Ynglinga sagaRelated: Its linked generations make legendary kingship appear continuous.

• Al-BaladhuriRelated: Al-Baladhuri used lineages to connect political actors and situate events within Arab society.

• GravestoneRelated: Names and dates on gravestones can preserve evidence for family histories.

• Henry Louis Gates Jr.Related: His television work uses genealogical evidence to connect personal ancestry with larger histories.

• Local historyRelated: Family histories often connect individual lives to a locality's broader past.

• Al-FarazdaqRelated: His verse uses ancestry as evidence in contests over tribal standing.

• AnthroponymyRelated: Personal names help genealogists connect people across records and generations.

• Library and Archives CanadaRelated: Census, immigration, and service records make the institution a major source for family history.

• Jeanne CalmentRelated: Family and local records are central to testing competing accounts of Calment's identity.

• Queer studiesRelated: It exposes the histories behind categories often treated as natural or inevitable.

• Muhammad Shah of BruneiRelated: Claims about Muhammad Shah’s ancestry rely on dynastic genealogies.

• Napoleon ChagnonRelated: Chagnon used genealogies to trace kinship ties and connect them to alliance and conflict.

• Philippa LangleyRelated: Genealogical work traced maternal-line descendants whose DNA could test the identification.

• Royal intermarriageRelated: Royal genealogies established degrees of kinship and competing inheritance claims.