Sri Lanka, is one of the smallest of the South Asian nations, 29 km southeast of India across the Palk Strait in the Indian Ocean. Sri Lanka was not the name by which the island was always known.
The Greeks and Romans knew it as Taprobane, the Arabian sailors as Serendib, the early Europeans in Asia as Zeilan or Seilan,the Portuguese as Ceylao, and the British as Ceylon. The Island nation has also been referred to as "The Pearl of the Indian Ocean".
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As defined by Webster's Dictionary:
ge·ne·al·o·gy
- A record or table of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; a family tree.
- Direct descent from an ancestor; lineage or pedigree.
- The study or investigation of ancestry and family histories.
As defined by thepipers.net:
Genealogy is a forum for honor and remembrance. It tells a story, of how we got to be here today.
It is an appreciation and a memorial to our ancestors whose lives may have been
seemingly insignificant at the time. Genealogy is a way for us to understand
our habits and features. It explains the unique mold from which we were cast.
Fate is a concept that occurs when looking into the lives of our ancestors. It may not have mattered to
them at the time. It may have just been their struggle to survive.
Either way, we may not have been here if one event was done differently or
had a different outcome. If one person decided to settle in town A opposed
to town B, it's most likely you would not be here in the family today.
Genealogy is the research and study of family lineage, but those of us who have delved deeply into it can
tell you that it is much more than that dictionary definition! Since the
18th century it has developed into subsidiary disciplines and list amongst
them - history. Family History is far more interesting than Genealogy. It is
here that we place people in their time period and find out how they lived,
putting the 'meat on the bones' so to speak. Genealogy data is usually
tracked back from the memory of living ancestors, archived records in
national repositories, Church and Community archives, newspaper articles,
obituaries, deeds, wills historical societies and the Internet.
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