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Family is a group of people related by birth, marriage or other ties. Learn about the different types of families, their functions, and how they have changed over time and across cultures.
A family tree is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. Learn about different formats, such as ancestry, descendant, ahnentafel and fan charts, and see examples from various cultures and history.
Recreational fishing is fishing for leisure, exercise or competition, contrasted with commercial or subsistence fishing. Learn about the history of recreational fishing, from ancient Japan to modern America, and the different methods and techniques used by anglers.
Patrilineality, also known as agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage. It involves the inheritance of property, rights, names, or titles by persons related through male kin, and is contrasted with cognate kinship through the mother's lineage.
Gillnetting is a fishing method that uses vertical panels of netting with floats and weights to catch fish by their gills. Learn about the origins, evolution and regulation of gillnetting around the world, and the different types and sizes of gillnets used for various species.
Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line and the identification with the mother's lineage. Learn about the origins, patterns and cultural variations of matrilineal systems, as well as the contrast with patrilineality and matrilineal surnames.
Angling (from Old English angol, meaning "hook") is a fishing technique that uses a fish hook attached to a fishing line to tether individual fish in the mouth. The fishing line is usually manipulated via a fishing rod, although rodless techniques such as handlining also exist.
In set theory and related branches of mathematics, a family (or collection) can mean, depending upon the context, any of the following: set, indexed set, multiset, or class. A collection of subsets of a given set is called a family of subsets of , or a family of sets over .