Journal article

Publication year: 2000

Pages: 134-146

Journal: Evolutionary Anthropology

Volume number: 9

Issue number: 3

ISSN: 1060-1538

eISSN: 1520-6505

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 
The method of family reconstitution has many fathers. About 100 years ago, the first pioneers began to edit a unique depository of European history, namely the church registers, with their data on vital events, which had been kept since early modern times. The aim was to compile the entries in a family-centered way, making accessible a name-based (nominative) evaluation of the data. Since then, thousands of amateur researchers interested in either genealogies or local history have conducted family reconstitutions. Weiss and Munchow(1) estimate that compilations of this kind have been made for about 5% to 10% of all German-speaking regions, frequently as unpublished card files or typed manuscripts. Other compilations have been printed as Ortssippenbucher, or books of local genealogies, and thus are accessible to the public. The personal, political, and scientific reasons for this work are extremely diverse and have their own history, which is not quite unproblematic, especially in Germany.(1) That fact makes the uninhibited handling of this material more difficult.

Harvard Citation style: Voland, E. (2000) Contributions of family reconstitution studies to evolutionary reproductive ecology, Evolutionary Anthropology, 9(3), pp. 134-146

APA Citation style: Voland, E. (2000). Contributions of family reconstitution studies to evolutionary reproductive ecology. Evolutionary Anthropology. 9(3), 134-146.