Is there a difference between genealogy and ancestry?

answers1: Genealogy relates to genetics whereas ancestry refers to ancestors.
answers2: Genealogy is the study and documentation of ones ancestry
(family). It has very little to do with genetics.
answers3: perhspd in thid life but wr have lived many lives
answers4: EVERYONE comes from ancestors. You don't exist without
them. Genealogy is the methodical process of using records/
documents, to investigate those ancestors and identify them. You have
ancestors (whether you know them or not), it is a "thing". Genealogy
means FINDING ancestry... it is something you DO, and optional. <br>
They both involve ancestors but are two separate definitions/ things.
answers5: for all intents and purposes they are the same in that
people doing their family research will exchange the words genealogy,
ancestry, heritage, and family tree. <br>
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If you're talking scientific research there are differences.
answers6: Everyone has some sort of ancestry, because everyone had two
parents, but not everyone makes a hobby of genealogy. It is a little
like the difference between birds and birdwatching. Almost everyone
has seen birds, but only a few become birdwatchers. <br>
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Ancestry is your ancestors, or mine, or ShirlyT's, or Barack Obama's.
All of us have parents, grandparents, great grandparents, and so on
back into the mists of time. Not all of us look them up, document
them, seek our 4th cousins twice removed, or get frustrated by dead
ends.
answers7: Yes there is a small difference. Genealogy is one line of a
person ancestory. Basically, it is tracing the ancestry from one
certain person. (for example, starting with your father and tracing
where he came from back as far as you can or starting with a great
great grandparent and tracing the line to you.) The term genealogy
is also used to refer to the study of someone's ancestry. <br>
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Ancestry is a more generalized term that just refers to all ancestors.
answers8: Genealogy and Genetics are not the same thing. Genealogist
are family historians and therefore they discover people's ancestry.
If a person has a genetics question they should go under Science and
Mathematics and the sub category Biology but we get Genetics question
here and it annoys some of the regulars.,. <br>
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You might say Genealogy is researching one's ancestry using documents/records.
answers9: Genealogy is a family lineage that can be traced via paper
documents or sometimes oral history. Ancestry is simply your
ancestors.Genetic genealogy is the tracing of ancestry via genetic
tests
answers10: The dictionary says genealogy means "the study and tracing
of lines of descent" <br>
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Ancestry means " Ancestral descent or lineage."