Genealogy Merit Badge Requirement 1
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Genealogy Merit Badge
- Explain to your counselor what the words genealogy, ancestor, and descendant mean.
Genealogy: The study of family history. The history of a particular family showing how the different members of the family are related to each other.
Ancestor: A person who was in someone's family in past times : one of the people from whom a person is descended.
Descendant: Proceeding from an ancestor or source