Comparison of Genealogy and Life Course Theory

Comparison of Genealogy and Life Course Theory

Genealogy

Introduction

Genealogy, also known as genealogy, family multiply, ancestral spectrum. In the form of a table spectrum, recorded a blood relationship as the main family lineage deeds of the breed, and an important figure in a special book genre to document paternal family lineage, character-centered, gradually evolved from the records of the ancient emperors and princes lineage.

Genealogy is a special, in terms of its content, is the most civilians distinctive literature in China five thousand years of civilization, according to the blood group of the clan ancestors lineage character and deeds and other aspects of the history of membership plans, but also records The various surnames family descendants descent inheritance of the book, to distinguish between members of the family kinship closeness function, is a product of the Chinese feudal patriarchal system.

Genealogical secret shows the house rules, whenever the family tree for 30 years a small repair, 60 years after an overhaul, the old genealogy Save leaving very few sets stored in the ancestral hall or patriarch in the hands, and the rest should be eliminated all cut, and on behalf of new genealogy. This particular customs, of course, for the preservation of ancient genealogy manufacturing artificial barriers. Nevertheless, the genealogy as a track record of life, there are still many are saved down.

Genealogy is a family history of life, it is not only a record of the source of the family, migratory trajectory, but also a list of family interest-earning, reproduction, marriage, culture, family rules, about the history and culture of the whole process, and the social and political system, economic base, cultural background are closely linked. The genealogy and national history , Chronicles tied as the three pillars of Chinese historiography.

The principle

A fact of life an individual may resurfaced a generation or two later on one or more of its descendants. Their life choices will be influenced by their behavior depend as our problems commemorated traumatic facts of our ancestors.

As already mentioned, the first work on the genetics of psychological attributes "Hereditary Genius" (1869) by F. Galton analyzes the pedigrees of prominent people. In other words, it used the genealogical method, i.e. method for studying families. It is based on simple logic: if a sign is encoded in the genes, then the closer the relationship (ie, the more of the same genes), the more similar to each other on the ground have to be these people. That is why the prerequisite of genealogical method - the presence of first-degree relatives, forming a so-called nucleotide-ary ("nuclear") family, these include a pair of parent-child and sibling-sibling and they - and they alone - have an average of 50% shared genes. Further, with decreasing degree, reduced the proportion of their genes, and the scheme of the method, should decrease the similarity of people more generations includes the family tree and the wider circle of relatives, ie wider than it is, the better the results are to be ...