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Introduction: Indigenous Perspectives on Genealogical Research [PDF]

open access: yesGenealogy, 2021
Indigenous genealogies encompass complex layers of connection within and between human, environment and spirit, realms [...]
Nēpia Mahuika, Tahu Kukutai
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The Ghost of the ‘Y’: Paternal DNA, Haunting and Genealogy [PDF]

open access: yesGenealogy, 2019
Based on a personal family history experience, in this paper, I consider the way in which genealogical DNA testing is revealing family secrets, in particular paternity secrets, which would previously have remained unknown via ‘traditional’ ...
Helen Scholar
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Virginia Institute of Genealogy Research

open access: yesVirginia Libraries, 2002
An innovative partnership between the Virginia Library Association and the Virginia Genealogical Society made a scholarship available for a VLA member to attend the annual Virginia Institute of Genealogical Research this past August.
Linda Derrer
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Family Microhistory: Genealogical Research in Szentes, Hungary

open access: yesHungarian Cultural Studies, 2022
This paper provides an account of the author’s family history in the context of her microhistorical research into the lives of her mostly peasant ancestors living in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Szentes, a small agricultural town in the middle of ...
Anna Fenyvesi
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Collaborations Between IPUMS and Genealogical Organizations, 1999-2022

open access: yesHistorical Life Course Studies, 2023
From 1999 to 2019, IPUMS collaborated with genealogical organizations to develop massive individual-level census datasets spanning the 1790 through 1940 period, and we are currently working on the 1950 census.
Steven Ruggles
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The persistent homology of genealogical networks

open access: yesApplied Network Science, 2023
Genealogical networks (i.e. family trees) are of growing interest, with the largest known data sets now including well over one billion individuals. Interest in family history also supports an 8.5 billion dollar industry whose size is projected to double
Zachary M. Boyd   +6 more
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The sources of information of the genealogical tourist: the influence of social networks and genealogical associations

open access: yesHeliyon, 2022
The increased demand for genealogical travel to places of family origin in recent years and its consequent economic and social repercussions have justified the aim of this research to obtain the sources of information used by genealogical tourists to ...
Ricardo Urrestarazu-Capellán   +2 more
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Correspondence Between Genomic- and Genealogical/Coalescent-Based Inference of Homozygosity by Descent in Large French-Canadian Genealogies

open access: yesFrontiers in Genetics, 2022
Research on the genetics of complex traits overwhelmingly focuses on the additive effects of genes. Yet, animal studies have shown that non-additive effects, in particular homozygosity effects, can shape complex traits.
Kelly M. Burkett   +10 more
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Development of the Genealogical FamilySearch Database and Expanding Its Use to Map and Measure Multiple Generations of American Migration

open access: yesGenealogy, 2021
Genealogical research is full of opportunities for connecting generations. Millions of people pursue that purpose as they put together family trees that span hundreds of years.
Samuel M. Otterstrom   +2 more
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DISCOVERING THE ROOTS – ANCESTRAL TOURISM IN ROMANIA. A PILOT STUDY

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Negotia, 2018
Ancestral tourism is a less explored field in Romania, although it has a great development potential due to the large masses of Romanian immigrants established all around the world, over time.
Carmen Mihaela BĂBĂIȚĂ   +2 more
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