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  2. History of the family - Wikipedia

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    These are some approaches through which family history can be viewed: Ancient history : the family in ancient times until the Early Middle Ages. Anthropology: the family in cultural context. Archaeology: the study of the family culture. Art history: the family representation in visual art. Chronology: the science of localizing family/events in ...

  3. Family in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    Ara Pacis showing the imperial family of Augustus Gold glass portrait of husband and wife (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Museo Sacro). The ancient Roman family was a complex social structure, based mainly on the nuclear family, but also included various combinations of other members, such as extended family members, household slaves, and freed slaves.

  4. Genealogy - Wikipedia

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    Genealogy (from Ancient Greek γενεαλογία (genealogía) 'the making of a pedigree') [2] is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of ...

  5. Descent from antiquity - Wikipedia

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    In European genealogy, a descent from antiquity (DFA or DfA) is a proven unbroken line of descent between specific individuals from ancient history and people living today. . Ancestry can readily be traced back to the Early Middle Ages, but beyond that, insufficient documentation of the ancestry of the new royal and noble families of the period makes tracing them to historical figures from ...

  6. Historical inheritance systems - Wikipedia

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    The Russian family of around 1900 considered property such as the house, agricultural implements, livestock and produce as belonging collectively to all family members. When the father died, his role as head of the family (known as Khozain, or Bolshak ) was passed to the oldest person in the house. In some areas this was the oldest son.

  7. List of noble houses - Wikipedia

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    A noble house is an aristocratic family or kinship group, either currently or historically of national or international significance [clarification needed], and usually associated with one or more hereditary titles, the most senior of which will be held by the "Head of the House" or patriarch.

  8. Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies - Wikipedia

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    The majority of the surviving pedigrees trace the families of Anglo-Saxon royalty to Woden.The euhemerizing treatment of Woden as the common ancestor of the royal houses is presumably a "late innovation" within the genealogical tradition which developed in the wake of the Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons.

  9. List of family trees - Wikipedia

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    This is an index of family trees on the English Wikipedia. It includes noble, politically important, and royal families as well as fictional families and thematic diagrams. This list is organized according to alphabetical order.

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