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  2. Birth order - Wikipedia

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    In some of the world's cultures, birth order is so important that each child within the family is named according to the order in which the child was born. For example, in the Aboriginal Australian Barngarla language, there are nine male birth order names and nine female birth order names, as following: [33]: 42

  3. Pedigree chart - Wikipedia

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    A pedigree chart is a diagram that shows the occurrence of certain traits through different generations of a family, [1] [2] most commonly for humans, show dogs, and race horses. [ citation needed ] Definition

  4. Firstborn - Wikipedia

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    When examining answers from organized studies, personality and attitude traits are repeated when comparing different children born into the same birth order. [2] These findings have been criticized. In specified cases, the firstborn child that was studied on was observed again as an adult and continued to demonstrate the identical traits as ...

  5. Family tree - Wikipedia

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    Family trees are often presented with the oldest generations at the top of the tree and the younger generations at the bottom. An ancestry chart, which is a tree showing the ancestors of an individual and not all members of a family, will more closely resemble a tree in shape, being wider at the top than at the bottom.

  6. Genealogy - Wikipedia

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    The family tree of Louis III, Duke of Württemberg (ruled 1568–1593) The family tree of "the Landas", a 17th-century family [1]. Genealogy (from Ancient Greek γενεαλογία (genealogía) 'the making of a pedigree') [2] is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages.

  7. The Birth Order Book - Wikipedia

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    In his 1996 book Born to Rebel, Frank Sulloway suggested that birth order had powerful effects on the Big Five personality traits. He argued that firstborns were much more conscientious and socially dominant, less agreeable, and less open to new ideas compared with laterborns.

  8. Middle child syndrome - Wikipedia

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    It describes the shared characteristics middle children feel and the events they go through that are specifically related to being the middle child. [2] According to Adler's theory, the life of each first, middle, and last-born sibling is different regarding birth order, and their personality traits can be affected by this. [2]

  9. Genealogical numbering systems - Wikipedia

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    The number of a person's father is twice their own number, and the number of a person's mother is twice their own, plus one. For instance, if John Smith is 10, his father is 20, and his mother is 21, and his daughter is 5. In order to readily have the generation stated for a certain person, the Ahnentafel numbering may be preceded by the ...