Vocabulary Word
Word: genealogy
Definition: record of descent; lineage; ancestry; study of ancestry
Definition: record of descent; lineage; ancestry; study of ancestry
Sentences Containing 'genealogy'
As it happens, there is a complete history of the Cervantes family from the tenth century down to the seventeenth extant under the title of "Illustrious Ancestry, Glorious Deeds, and Noble Posterity of the Famous Nuno Alfonso, Alcaide of Toledo," written in 1648 by the industrious genealogist Rodrigo Mendez Silva, who availed himself of a manuscript genealogy by Juan de Mena, the poet laureate and historiographer of John II.
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