Yep, I've read the Bible three times straight through, and the "begats" have an uncanny ability to make me zone out. I think it's mostly (if not entirely) for "royal blood" ancestry records...showing who come from which ancestries. Of COURSE, it's only in the male line straight through.

Animal pedigrees fascinate me more than that. :-p At least I can see MORE of their lineage and (in some instances) see an ancestor pup up in more than one place.