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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2023] “You Are Your Story”: Identities in Popular Genealogy and New Forms of Historical Research
DESCRIPTION:We address constructions of identity in history, historical culture, and digital history, with a focus on popular genealogy. The advertising slogan of the large genealogy, archive digitization, and DNA analysis company Ancestry.com, "You are your story," suggests that people do not actively "make" their history, their person, or their social or familial relationships in the sense of doing kinship, but are passively determined by what history does to them. In contrast, the massively popular genealogical practice is based on "making" identity, asserting it as a "fragile fact" or hypothesis based on uncertain sources. This applies to both the compilation of events in one's life and the linking of individuals to relationship networks.
In addition, genealogical research - from the early days of aristocratic genealogy to German bourgeois "ancestor research" or English local population history, etc. - is characterized by a desire to locate oneself as honorable, biologically valuable, part of a local class tradition, etc. and to gain identity from this location. Both variants of identity construction (building identities from individual observations and asserting long-term continuity) are influenced by processes of digitization and biotechnology.
The digitization of genealogy makes uncertain identities of "insignificant" individuals who do not meet relevance criteria manageable, and biotechnology can be used to extract DNA as an additional source type. Therefore, the session aims to discuss the consequences of digitization and biotechnology for how people imagine and locate themselves as historically determined, "made" beings or also "make" themselves.
Der Beitrag “You Are Your Story”: Identities in Popular Genealogy and New Forms of Historical Research erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2023.
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