Poor Hervey has, indeed, been the sport of genealogists and historians.
The skilled genealogists of the north may be able to decide these points, and to tell us the true descent of 'Dolfin, the son of Uchtred'.
But it must be remembered that the Prophet used to say, "beyond Adnan none but Allah knoweth, and the genealogists lie.
Of the TubbaaEuro~s who come after him some obviously owe their place in the line of a¸¤imyar to genealogists whose respect for the Koran was greater than their critical acumen.
It was, no doubt, the consciousness of this racial distinction that caused the view to prevail among Moslem genealogists that the Arabs followed two separate lines of descent from their common ancestor, SAim b.
Consequently the Persian genealogists and philologists lost no opportunity of bringing to light scandalous and discreditable circumstances connected with the history of the Arab tribes or of particular families.
I have endeavored to overcome this bias by restricting my requests for information to genealogists and others who would more naturally appeal to records, but my efforts have been only partially successful.
Such acknowledgement is due to the many genealogists and other friends who have kindly furnished detailed cases of consanguineous marriage.
In order as far as possible to avoid this bias, I sent my own circulars to genealogists and others who would naturally be more interested in the relationships than in pathological conditions.
In the middle-third part of the nineteenth century, the date of Sudbury Fight was a topic of serious controversy by genealogists and historians.
Heralds andgenealogists produced a pedigree, which seemed to authorise this pretension; he was recognised, together with his brother, Pius IV.
The Bhats who act as genealogists of the cultivating and other castes and accept cooked food from their clients may perhaps be held to rank with or even below them.
The Bhats are the bards, heralds and genealogists of India and include groups of very varying status.
A small caste found in Chhattisgarh and Sambalpur who are the musicians and genealogistsof the Ghasias.
They also have gurus or spiritual preceptors, being members of the caste who have joined the mendicant orders; and Bhats or genealogists of their own caste who beg at their weddings.
Their claim to be immigrants from Central India is borne out by the fact that they still speak a corrupt form of the Malwi dialect of Rajputana, which is called after them Bhoyari, and their Bhats or genealogists come from Malwa.
He assented, and his descendants are the genealogists of the Agharias and are termed Dashanshi.
There is also a section of Muhammadan Bhats who serve as bards and genealogists for Muhammadan castes.
One class became merchants and travelled with large convoys of goods, and the others were the bards and genealogists of the Rajputs.
Minstrels in India are no less complacent than genealogists and heralds in Europe; and a ruling chief can have a mythical founder of his line disinterred from unknown records as readily as can a British peer.
There were among them more harpers and poets than even genealogists and antiquarians, although the branches of study represented by these last were certainly as well cultivated among them as among the Celts of Gaul, Spain, or Italy.
Feudalism broke the clans, persecution put an effectual stop to the labors of genealogists and bards.
There still remained in the island a great number of noble families, and the ollamhs and genealogists kept clear the rolls of the respective pedigrees.
Although the genealogists say that Alftrude had a daughter whose name was Turfrida, the date does not agree with Gaimar's account.
Over the parentage of this man genealogists have disputed for centuries.
Doubtless the judge was the son of John Howard of Wiggenhall, living about 1260, whose widow Lucy, called by the genealogists the daughter of John Germund, was probably the wife of John Germund by her second marriage.
The genealogists differ on these points, but the old heralds seem to agree.
The name "Lee" is traced by English genealogists to Scandinavia.
Italy likewise has not yet shaken off the influence of those venal genealogists who, three hundred years ago, sold pedigrees cheaply to all comers.
The aims and methods of ancient genealogists require to be carefully considered before the value of the numerous ancestral lists in the Bible can be properly estimated.
It may be taken as proved that the Scyld or Sceldwa of the genealogists is identical with the Scyld Scefing of Beowulf.
It is equally clear that the Scyld Scefing of Beowulf is identical with the Skjold of the Danish genealogists and historians.
The Berias themselves, in Central India at any rate, are a branch of the Sansias, a vagrant and criminal class, whose traditional occupation was that of acting as bards and genealogists to the Jat caste.
The pole is left standing for three days, and during this time the celebrant feasts the Bhats orgenealogists of the caste and all the caste-fellows from his own and the surrounding villages.
The caste have bards and genealogists of their own who are known as Patia.
In the Punjab the Doms are the regular bards and genealogists of the lower castes, being known also as Mirasi: "The two words are used throughout the Province as absolutely synonymous.
Genealogists are all familiar with the charge of long standing that genealogy is a subject of no use, a fad of a privileged class.
It is highly desirable that genealogists should acquire the habit of stating the traits of their subjects in quantitative terms.
If a spirit of false pride leads genealogists to hold aloof from these experiments, they will make slow progress.
Genealogists may well ask what facilities there are for receiving and using pedigrees such as we have been outlining, if they were made up.
Genealogists must begin at once to keep family records in such a way that they will be of the greatest value possible--that they will serve not only family pride, but bigger purposes.
Genealogists are usually proud of their pedigrees; they usually have a right to be.
Mr. Clark, in alliance with Lord Wimborne, played a prominent part in the development of the Dowlais steel works, and he was at the same time one of the greatest genealogists and heraldic antiquarians of his day.
This individual, according to the genealogists of the Heralds' College, was a younger son of Sir Baldwyn Malet of Enmore, in the county of Dorset.
Not only in Munster but also in Connacht, Meath and Ulster, our ancient genealogists recognise the existence of Ivernian communities.
It is interesting to note that the Irish genealogists derive the origin of both from Leinster.
Sen-Érainn means the old or original Iverni, and the term is used to distinguish them from others also called Érainn, who were of free status and are attached by the genealogists to the Gaelic stock.
The genealogistsof Corcu Loegdae, or Dáirine, claim that the people of that state were the first in Ireland to receive Christianity; and the claim at all events cannot be dismissed on the ground of improbability.
The Irish genealogists tell us that Dál Riada takes its name from Cairbre Riada, an ancestor of Fergus and nine generations (i.
Dugdale, Blomfield, and most of our genealogists are extremely inaccurate as to the early history of this family.
A branch of this illustrious family certainly settled in England; but the connection is fictitious, by which some genealogists carry it up to the conquest, making a Gervais, a Jeffry, and an Arnold present at Hastings.
The genealogists further say that this chief waited on the King during his visit to Inverness in 1312.
All the later genealogists appear to have taken its authenticity for granted, and quoted it accordingly.
There has been much difference of opinion among the genealogists and family historians regarding Alexander's two wives.
Secondly, Walter married a lady of the family of Darell or Dorrell, though some genealogists describe her as Isabel, daughter of de Ponte, a Genoese merchant settled in London.
There were genealogists who, though others doubted, traced the stock to the Plantagenets through an intermarriage with the Clares.
The above stories have been invented to account for the social inferiority of the Pardhans to the Gonds, but their position merely accords with the general rule that the bards and genealogists of any caste are a degraded section.
There is a tradition that the Gond kings employed Pardhans as their ministers, and as the Pardhans acted as genealogists they may have been more intelligent than the Gonds, though they are in no degree less illiterate.
The Manas have Bhats or genealogistsof their own caste, a separate one being appointed for each sept.
He had no pedigree: indeed, we do not know with absolute certainty who was his father, though modern genealogists have amused themselves by making a pedigree for him, to which there is no real evidence that he had the least claim.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "genealogists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
