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a chart that proves you're descended from both royalty and horse thieves, depending who's asking.
means a diagram showing how people in a family are related across generations, usually branching from ancestors down to descendants.
from the metaphor dates to medieval europe, where genealogies of nobility were literally drawn as trees with roots as ancestors and branches as heirs, borrowing from biblical trees of jesse showing christ's lineage.
biblical roottree of jesse traced jesus back to king david
dna twistconsumer dna tests now rewrite trees weekly
mormon archivechurch of latter-day saints holds billions of genealogy records
royal flexeuropean monarchs used trees to justify thrones
for instance
habsburg jaw — centuries of royal intermarriage visible in one chin
jesse tree — medieval church art tracing christ to king david
finding your roots — pbs show unearthing celebrity ancestries since 2012