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Janyce - Genealogy, the study of family lineage.

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Many of the claimed ancestries are considered by modern scholars to be fabrications, especially the claims of kings and emperors who trace their ancestry to gods or the founders of their civilization. For example, the Anglo-Saxon chroniclers traced the ancestry of several English kings back to the god Woden (the English version of the Norse god Odin). If these descents were true, Queen Elizabeth II would be a descendant of Woden, via the kings of Wessex.

Another type of society focuses on a particular geographical area rather than on particular individuals. Among these geographically oriented societies, the New England Historic Genealogical Society founded in 1845 is the oldest in America.

Volunteer efforts figure prominently in genealogy both as a source of enriching data sources and as a means to obtain information from geographically remote sources. For instance, there is an organization of 4500 researchers that share their time under the phrase and associated web site "Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness".

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