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A genogram, also known as a family diagram, [1] [2] is a pictorial display of a person's position and ongoing relationships in their family's hereditary hierarchy. It goes beyond a traditional family tree by allowing the user to visualize social patterns and psychological factors that punctuate relationships, especially patterns that repeat over the generations.
Karl Ritter von Ghega: Designed the Semmering railway, the first standard-gauge mountain railway in Europe, commonly known as the world's first true mountain railway. [8] [9] Ghega was awarded the title of in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the country and was appointed as the chief planner for the entire railway network of the Austrian Empire.
Three generations of ancestors (born from 1824 to 1916) [1] placed on a Swedish kurbits tree. Genealogical data can be represented in several formats, for example, as a pedigree or ancestry chart. Family trees are often presented with the oldest generations at the top of the tree and the younger generations at the bottom.
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The word pedigree is a corruption of the Anglo-Norman French pé de grue or "crane's foot", either because the typical lines and split lines (each split leading to different offspring of the one parent line) resemble the thin leg and foot of a crane [3] or because such a mark was used to denote succession in pedigree charts.
The name "Albanians" (Latin: Albanenses/Arbanenses) was used in medieval Greek and Latin documents that gradually entered European languages from which other similar derivative names emerged. [1] Linguists believe that the alb part in the root word originates from an Indo-European term for a type of mountainous topography, meaning "hill ...
The members of a fara have a common ancestor who is the eponymos founder of the village. [24] The political organization is communal; every neighbourhood sends a representing elder ( plak ) to the governing council of the village ( pleqësi ), who elect the head of the village ( kryeplak ).
Gjon Kastrioti was an Albanian feudal lord [1] [2] from the House of Kastrioti and the father of Albanian leader Gjergj Kastrioti (better known as Skanderbeg).He governed the territory between the Cape of Rodon and Dibër and had at his disposal an army of 2,000 horsemen.