FAMILY TREE/ LINEAGE OR “TAROMBO” OF ETHNIC GROUP BATAK

IN THE FORM OF TABLE AND DIAGRAM

INTRODUCTION.

 TAROMBO or the FAMILY TREE/ LINEAGE according to the Indonesian dictionary by Prof Dr J.S.Badudu and Prof Sutan Muhammat Zain: was the history of descendant, the origin someone in the list of the descendants. Investigated the family tree or TAROMBO was to investigate the origin someone in the list of the descendants of his ancestors. TAROMBO BATAK was patriarchate or according to the line of the descendants of the father and the male child. In the Dictionary of Lengkap Indonesia Inggeris [English] by Prof.Drs.S.Wojowasito-W.J.S.Poerwadarminta, 1980, the family tree in English was GENEALOGY. The Webster’s Dictionary the Genealogy was the LINEAGE . The Gospel: The GENEOLOGY was THE BOOK OF THE GENERATION OF SOMEONE  [St Matthew 1:1]

The writer was name Sahala Panjaitan, Sahala it means Spirit, Panjaitan or "Taylor" is the the family or second name. Panjaitan is one of the clans from hundreds of the ethnic group's clans of BATAK. Suku Batak was the main ethnic group that had TAROMBO or the family tree in Indonesia. Anyone the Batak ethnic group had the name [first name] and the clan that is the name of the ancestors who adhered after the name personally that one sign of the identification for someone who was acknowledged as the clan [second name or family name]. The existence of people who had the clan  , it means that they came from one descendant of the ancestors. Generally the person Batak had the obligation to know the origin he proposed in tarombo/ Family Tree/Lineage Batak. It is the law and the ethnic group's Batak tradition that is banned or the marriage taboo between the peer in one clan.

The identity of the BATAK ETHNIC GROUP was especially known with the Tarombo existence, Adat Dalihan Na Tolu [Tree Pillar of Traditional Value], Budaya [Culture] Batak  and the Batak Language