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WHY THE GENEALOGICAL DATABASE

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to point up the social importance of creating the genealogical database and the pertaining prereqiusites and tools for its implementation. As an illustration, when listing the numerical indicators referring to some concrete historical events, in the paper are given several examples from the historiographical practice. The counterparts of those examples are other examples in which exact investigatios ‘in the field’, carried out usig relevant database are described. Since the principal subject of this paper is family tree and genealogy, it should be noted that genealogy is one of the twenty four auxiliary disciplines of history and thus can be defined as a social science dealing with the origin, descent and evolution of families, as well as with research and studying of family relations. Family members are represented by the corresponding generations. Their mutual relations can be presented graphically in a scheme usually listing the names and date of birth of the family members. To each of the family member needs to be assigned a number by which we can then detect each family member in thus created genealogical system. Other genealogical data, both priamry and secondary, with pertaining attachements (photogrraphs, copies of records, textual descriptions, etc.) are being presented in a publication, usually a book, called the family history. Genealogical database is a set of all genealogical data created, either in nonelectronic or in electronic form, from the family trees (genealogy), which may be family trees using last names or the ancestor tables (ahnentafel charts), or parentals, etc. as well as from other sources containing those data. The genealogical database can be deemd the most comprehensive set of data of the family relations and bearers of those relations within a social community, such as a municipality. As a rule, the creation of this database should be accompanied, as a parallel activity, by the creation of a corresponding repertory of the genealogical data. In addition, the paper points up the social relevance of establishing such a database that can be competitive with the levels of such practices achieved in the developed countries

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