Not just limited to the Family Tree
Genealogy from the Universal Perspective
In the field of Quantum Sociology then, Parallel Communities all influence the current successor in some way or another through lines of social and historical development.
Relations of general constituents indicate the dynamic organization of systems, but the environmental economics of historical unification within their contextual meanings will reveal so much more profundity than a socially isolated system would. History, related in the context of a Being, is a Semiotic and non-local narrative phenomena.
As Varela and Maturana have pointed out, whenever structural lines are conserved across a generative history, a genealogical heredity is indicated.
notes: from Concept Sociology (Sociological Genealogy)