genealogical chart
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Try to follow the “abridged” genealogical chart provided by the museum, with its interlocking axes of descendance and intermarriage, and you may rediscover the mercies of the nuclear family.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023
My mother had shown me a genealogical chart of “Greene’s descent” that showed we “descended” from the royalty of France, and even a Russian named “Rorick the Great.”
From Salon • Jul. 23, 2016
He wanted a relative of Walker's to throw out the first pitch, so he started putting together a genealogical chart.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2014
But his "army of acolytes" was so formidable and vast that the curator even considered making a genealogical chart to track White's legacy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2014
An imaginary genealogical chart of descent connecting him with Confucius or Gautama would be more satisfactory.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee