Family tree



A family tree is generally the totality of 'ones ancestors represented as a, or more specifically, a chart used in. The image of the tree probably originated with one in medieval art of the, used to illustrate the in terms of a prophecy of  (Isaiah, 11, 1). Possibly the first non-Biblical use, and the first to show full family relationships rather than a purely patrilineal scheme, was several family trees of the classical gods in 's (On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles), whose first version dates to 1360. From the earliest manuscript copies the trees are included, and they were probably part of the original work.