From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Genealogy \Gen'e*al"o*gy\, noun; pl. {Genealogies}. [OE. genealogi, genelogie, OF. genelogie, F. g['e]n['e]alogie, L. genealogia, fr. Gr. ?; ? birth, race, descent (akin to L. genus) + ? discourse.]
1. An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.
2. Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: successive generations of kin [syn: {family tree}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
GENEALOGY, noun An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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