Family History: Relatives, Roots, and Databases
Tanny Dobbelaar
How are the concepts of ‘me’, ‘my relatives’ and ‘family’ shaped in specific historical practice contemporary family histories, written by historians about their own relatives? Object this study is a corpus more than 120 selected at CBG (Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie), national desk that facilitates genealogical research The Netherlands. analysis covers templates timelines, digital influences, family, repertoires as writers. intertwining classical software-terms, intimate relations between individuals technological, artifacts studied here tradition Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory (ANT). This discloses conceptual juggling with needed our descriptions past relatives.
University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology)