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Lanka 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: 1. A record or table of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; a family tree. 2. Direct descent from an ancestor; lineage or pedigree. 3. The study or investigation of ancestry and family histories. |
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Ayubowan!/Vanakkam!/Salaam!/Greetings! to the Sri Lanka Genealogy Website that features a wide variety of History, Heritage, Genealogy, Geography, People, Alumni, & Events amongst all the communities who have lived in the Island since ancient times. VIEW the Sri Lanka Genealogy Website Message Board or post a QUERY or SURNAME
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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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Many thanks to Fred R Ramont & Charlotte M Meyer (Asia Genealogy Web coordinator) for their valuable assistance and unstinted cooperation Counter activated since June 4,1999
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