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A set of transactions originating from the same transaction is a transaction family. For example, in an order entry process, a copy of the order form is sent to the manufacturing, shipping, and billing swimlanes and processed in parallel by those swimlanes. When a transaction is duplicated in this manner, all of the newly created transactions are assigned to the same family as the original transaction.
After a family is created, any duplicate transactions in the process flow create new members of the original transaction family. Transactions typically stay in the same family unless you duplicate them into a new family.