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Types of Family History Information |
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Genealogists who seek to reconstruct the lives of each ancestor consider all historical information to be "genealogical" information. Traditionally, the basic information needed to ensure correct identification of each person are place names, occupations, family names, first names, and dates. However, modern genealogists greatly expand this list, recognizing the need to place this information in its historical context in order to properly evaluate genealogical evidence and distinguish between same-name individuals.
Family Names
Family names are simultaneously one of the most important pieces of genealogical information, and a source of significant confusion for researchers.
In many cultures, the name of a person refers to the family to which he or she belongs. This is called the family name, surname, or last name. Patronymics are names that identify an individual based on the father''s name, e.g., Marga Olafsdottir or Olaf Thorsson. Many cultures used patronymics before surnames were adopted or came into use. The Dutch in New York, for example, used the patronymic system of names until 1687 when the advent of English rule mandated surname usage. In Iceland, patronymics are used by a majority of the population. In Denmark and Norway patronymics and farm names were generally in use through the 1800s and beyond, though surnames began to come into fashion toward the end of the nineteenth century in some parts of the country. Not until 1856 in Denmark and 1923 in Norway were there laws requiring surnames.
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Tasmania Post Office Directory 1945 - 1946 |
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Wise's Tasmania Post Office Directory 1945 - 1946
This directory contains a wealth of information for any genealogy and family tree researcher. The listings in the different directories include street names and numbers , householder names, occupations and traders.
Search the 1945 - 1946 Tasmanian Post Office Directory
The details of each section in the directory are as follows:
Hobart Directory: Hobart directory which includes the suburbs of Battery Point, Cascades, Derwent Park, Glebe, Lower Sandy Bay, Lutana, Moonah, Mount Stuart, Nelson, New Town, Queensbro and Sandy Bay. Following the Hobart section are Bellerive, Glenorchy, Lindisfarne, Lenah Valley, Montgu Bay, Ridgeway, Risdon and Risdon West.
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Conducting Family History Research |
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Family history can either be in the form of a printed document, electronic document or sound or video recording that preserves this history for future generations. The readers will expect it to describe where the family originated from, name the members of the family and state who they married.
Family Histories are often created as a memorial for the deceased and are written to be passed down to future generations.
Today many people are using these old records to recover their family history. But most of these records include only technical details of a person''s life, such as their birth date, whom they married, the jobs they did, and so forth, but they contain very little about the person themselves such as their likes, dislikes, hobbies, hopes and dreams.
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Family History - Genealogy |
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Family history is the systematic narrative and research of past events relating to a specific family, or specific families.
While genealogy is the convenient label for the field, family history is the over-arching term, since genealogy in the strict sense is only concerned with tracing unified lineages. Other sectors of family history, such as one-name studies, may pay only rudimentary attention to lineages, or may emphasize biography rather than vital data.
Forms of family-history research include:
- genealogy (tracing a living person''s pedigree back into time from the present, or an historic person''s descendancy to the present, using archival records)
- genetic genealogy (discovering relationships by comparing the DNA of living individuals);
- one-name studies (an investigation of all persons with a common surname)
- one-place studies (population histories including the German Ortsfamilienbuch)
- heraldic and peerage studies (inquiries into the legal right of persons to bear arms or claim noble status)
- clan studies (inquiries into groups with a shared patrilineal or matrilineal connection to a tribal chieftain and his servants, although they may not be related by blood and may not share the same surname)
- family social and economic history (telling the story of a family''s place in society or economic achievements using oral and written records, or inferring information about lives from wider historical sources; this subject is treated below)
Unlike related forms of micro-history, such as corporate histories or local studies, family history research begins with only an approximate notion of the extent of the entity - the extended family - and never fully defines it, since the early origins of all families become invisible in prehistorical times. DNA genealogy offers some hope of moving this boundary further back into time.
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