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THESES & DISSERTATIONS: "Family History" & Genealogy - [Titles listed
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- YEAR 2013
- Cape Colony marriage in perspective
[Using genealogical records to track the ancestry
of colonial settlers in South Africa, this study will
investigate the evolution of marriage in the Cape Colony.]
- Locating persons: an ethnography of personhood
and place in rural Kyrgyzstan
[Formal ways of reckoning kinship, such as
recounting genealogies and tracing back seven
generations of male ancestors, and everyday forms
of socialising are both integral in what it means to be
a person, and are flexible in their designation of persons
of the same kind and persons that are different.]
- Trazando al indio audiovisual:
representación, auto-representación y persistencia
[Cinematic depiction of the Indian during
different periods of Mexican history.]
- YEAR 2012
- Abenaki Sociality and the Work of Family History
[Particular attention is devoted to the creation
of historical facts and the processes by which
aspects of the past become meaningful in the present.]
- Changing in place : a generational study
of a mixed indigenous family in the Okanagan
[Genealogy of the McDougalls, whose heritage
can be considered to be Scottish, Syilx, Secwepemc
and Métis, evaluating the extent to which
their social and kin networks were shaped
by current dominant ideologies.]
- Collusive oligopolistic politics: sedo and the political
structure of early-nineteenth-century Chosŏn Korea
[Based on some statistical data and extensive
research in genealogy records.]
- Constructing the Chinese: Paleoanthropology
and Anthropology in the Chinese Frontier, 1920-1950
[Chinese ethno-nationalism exploits nativist
ancestral claims back to antiquity to legitimize
its geo-political occupation of the entire territory
of modern China, which includes areas
where many non-Han people live.]
- Dinastias políticas e poder local : o caso do município de Arcos
[Alliances and the social networks of agents
and families with political traditions.]
- Family History in the Assessment of Risk
for Common Complex Diseases:
Current State of Evidence.
- From gravestones to Google:
Impact of internet adoption on genealogists' information
and communication behaviors.
- Heirloom:
An Examination of Value, Family History and Personal Identity.
- It’s Wraylynn – With A W:
Distinctive Mormon Naming Practices.
- Learning from e-family history:
Online research behaviour and strategies of family
historians and implications for local studies collections.
[Through three central foci (users, e-family history
resources, and Local Studies Collections), this research
investigates these resources and collections from
the perspective of users, to establish how to make
the added value of the local studies collections more
visible and encourage increased engagement
for those who cannot visit collections in person.]
- Performing Nostalgia: Body, Memory,
and the Aesthetics of Past-Home
[Study of African American nostalgia for Africa
uses genealogical inquiry, personal and
autoethnographic narrative, and performance
theories and practices.]
- Pleasure, politics, and piety:
the artistic patronage of Marie de Brabant
[Taking the form of manuscript illumination, sculpture,
stained glass, and architecture, as well as literature,
music, science, history, genealogy, ritual, and finery,
Marie’s patronage set a trend for courtly consumption
for the remainder of the medieval period.]
- (Re)Collections: Photography, Memory, and Forgetting
[Research on traditional and counter memorials to explore
the dichotomy of remembering and forgetting.]
- Ritual in the making:
critical exploration of ritual in Te Whare Pora
[Three specific whenu (threads) of Iho/Aho Matua
(Māori Philosophy): Whakapapa (genealogy),
Whanaungatanga (kinship), and Karakia (invocation)
form the base from which this investigation occurs.]
- Scalable Path-Based Computations on Pedigree Data
[In medical genetics and genetic counseling,
genealogy information is becoming increasingly abundant.]
- Silence and Voices: Family History and Memorialization
in Intergenerational Holocaust Literature.
- Statistical issues in modelling the ancestry
from Y-chromosome and surname data
[A considerable industry has grown-up around
genealogical inference from genetic testing, supplementing
more traditional genealogical techniques but with very
limited quantification of uncertainty.]
- The World of the Blaskovich. The History and Lifestyle
of a Gentry Family from the Beginning of the 18th Century
to the Middle of the 20th Century.
- Unearthing
[Hybrid of nonfiction genres, and follows a narrator
as she attempts to piece together past and present
memories and meditations about family history, travel,
and the idea of home.]
- Virtual Legacies: Genealogy, the Internet, and Jewish Identity
[Narratives on Jewish genealogical research Web sites,
cyber-shtetls, and personal genealogy Web sites
and blogs reveal constructions of Jewish identity
that have never before been articulated as viable options
for forming Jewish communities.]
- YEAR 2011
- Exploring Familial Themes in Malaysian
Students' Eating Behaviors
[Six themes were identified in this study; “family plays
an important role,” “family mealtimes,” parental
preferences and decision-making, parental advice,
“lasting habits,” and culture and family history.]
- Looking Back: An Examination of Family Archives.
- YEAR 2010
- Adopted Genealogies: Identity in Adoptee Heritage Camps
[Adoptee heritage camps are summer camps designed
for Korean adoptees and their adoptive parents, with
the stated purpose of reconnecting adoptees to their
birth culture. The camps engage adopted children
in cultural activities such as Korean crafts and sports,
with the underlying assumption that such exposure is
critical to adoptees' sense of identity and wholeness.]
- Ancestors, Avotaynu, Roots:
An Inquiry into American Genealogy Discourse
[An inquiry into the genealogical assumption,
the cultural notion that "who you are" is tied to
who your ancestors were and that genealogy
and family history will provide knowledge of that bond.]
- Automatic Extraction From and Reasoning
About Genealogical Records: A Prototype
- Genealogy as theatre of self-identity:
Study of genealogy as a cultural practice
within Britain since c. 1850.
- Relationship Between Identity Development
and Family History Knowledge
[Late adolescent's personal exploration of and commitment
to roles and values may be influenced by knowledge
of parent and grandparent histories.]
- YEAR 2009
- Bill Barrows
Oral Histories and the Portland Brownstone Quarries.
- Early Greek kinship
[Early Greek genealogies are usually linear
and descendent-focused or tendrilled and ancestor-focused,
and include sections of story-telling that are an integral
part of the descent information.]
- French Families, Paper Facts:
Genetics, Writing, and Intimate Histories.
[Catholic Church mandated personal data record-taking
during the Counter-Reformation and, as a result,
historically Catholic European countries and their
numerous African, Asian, and American colonies
have some of the most comprehensive catalogues
of historic birth and marriage information in the world.]
- Such Daughters and Such a Mother: The Countess
of Derby and her Three Daughters, 1560-1647.
[Alice Spencer Stanley Egerton, the dowager countess
of Derby (1559-1637), and her three daughters:
Anne Stanley Brydges Touchet, Lady Chandos
and then dowager countess of Castlehaven (1581-1647),
Frances Stanley Egerton,
countess of Bridgewater (1583-1636),
and Elizabeth Stanley Hastings,
countess of Huntingdon (1587-1634).]
- The most public of all history: family history
and heritage albums in the transmission of records
[Family histories are demonstrated to be parts
of a new world in which private archives influence
the overall understanding of records and public history.]
- YEAR 2008
- Family webs: The impact of women's genealogy research
on family communication.
- Genealogical Family History in Aotearoa-New Zealand:
From Community of Practice to
Transdisciplinary Academic Discourse?
- Keeper of the Gate
[Story of five generations of women
who are westerners from Idaho.]
- Primary Care Providers Believe Patient-Generated
Family History Will Increase Ability to Assess Patient Risk
- YEAR 2007
- Die ontwikkeling van 'n elektroniese genealogiese
databasis van burgerlike sterftes tydens
die Anglo-Boereoorlog 1899-1902
[Core objective of this study was to find the exact number
of civilian deaths during the Anglo-Boer War.]
- YEAR 2006
- Thy Children Own Their Birth: Diasporic genealogies
and the descendants of Canada's Home Children
[Research explores the cultural practices and identities
of the descendants of an estimated 100,000 children
who were despatched to Canada, unaccompanied
by their parents, and under the auspices of a number
of British charities, between 1869 and the late 1940s.]
- YEAR 2005
- Auto Biography: A Daughter's Story Told in Cars
[Auto Biography is a creative nonfiction memoir:
A daughter, forced to move her unlovable,
ever-combustible, wheelchairbound mother
cross-country in an RV, attempts to come
to terms with her via the automobiles of their lives.]
- YEAR 2004
- An Examination of the Meaning
of Family Recreational Storytelling
among Parents and their Adult Children
[Family history stories appeared to be related
to the creation of a family identity.]
- YEAR 2003
- The crucible:
Pembina and the origins of the Red River Valley Metis
[Using genealogy, researchers can name the freemen
and link up the Canadian voyageurs of the early 1800s
with the Bois Brules of the Fur Trade War.]
- YEAR 2002
- From generation to generation:
family stories, computers and genealogy
- YEAR 2001
- Communities of kinship:
Antebellum families on the cotton frontier
[The evidentiary base for this study is the compilation
of almost 7,000 individuals connected by kinship to
George Keesee, who immigrated to Virginia about 1700.
I argue for the incorporation of genealogical methodology
into standard methods of historical inquiry.]
- YEAR 2000
- Land Surveys and the Robinsons of North Kildare (1769-1864)
[A significant outcome of this study is the Robinson
Family Genealogy line, which has been prepared
to correlate with each of the seven surveys.]

Please submit any additional pertinent theses & dissertations.