Genealogischen

Genealogischen is the inflected form of the German adjective genealogisch, meaning relating to genealogy or to family history. It is used to describe things that concern lineage, descent, or the study of family trees. In German, adjectives are declined to match gender, number, and case, so genealogischen appears in several contexts, especially with plural nouns or with definite articles in various cases. For example: die genealogischen Forschungen (the genealogical researches), den genealogischen Linien (the genealogical lines, dative plural).

Etymology: The root comes from Genealogie, borrowed from French genealogie, ultimately from Greek genea- "generation" and logos "study." The term has been used since the modern period in historical and anthropological writing.

Usage and scope: Genealogisch describes material, methods, or concepts in the field of genealogy. It is common in scholarly and archival contexts, including family-history research, construction of family trees, and discussions of descent and lineage. It is not a term for genetics; genealogisch relates to ancestry and familial connections rather than genes or heredity in a biological sense.

See also: Genealogie, Stammbaum, Ahnenforschung.