One-place study
A Family Book ( formerly: local or village clan book ) is a personal historical secondary source that lists the nuclear families (father and mother and their children) together or be listed together on an index card, or side of a computer-based text. In addition, the combination of their genealogy is made for the family, that is, when father and mother are referred to their respective parents and where such information can be exploited from the sources with the children on their marriage.
The sources that are used for the processing of a Local heritage book are typically the church records, but also all other persons historical sources of spiritual or secular origin. Likewise, local heritage books can be used by neighboring communities for processing a local family book.
In brief, a Ortsfamilienbuch is also referred to as a family book, then it is not to be confused with the family book under German civil status law.
The family reconstitution as a method
The method of family- wise compilation of people from church records, the family reconstitution method or Henry, has been published in the 1950s in France, no doubt fertilizes the population history and the social history throughout the world. The fact that in the German language, such work were already several decades earlier, and appeared in large numbers, was this overlooked by the international scientific community.
The history of the local heritage books in the German language
Already in the 16th century went in different locations soul registers, each of which was only a temporal cross -section of the population in a given year and there are (for example, in Upper Austria ) also remained in some landscapes, over in Rolling family register. 1807 to lead a family register has no legal obligation in every community Württemberg. From 1920 Konrad Brandner tried to capture the descent of the entire population of Styria in a popular genealogy. The Reichsnährstand target during the time of National Socialism in its blood - and-soil policy to issue a village Sippenbuch for each village, and organized the Kirchenbuchverkartung. Be unbefrachtet from this policy objective since the 1950s, family history and local historians local family history books or local heritage books edited in ever- increasing numbers and published.
Practical Advice for writers of family books
Today local heritage books are developed computer-aided usually. Instead of the index card on which each family is entered, genealogy programs offer input masks for the data. The variability of the family name and the production of the registers can thereby lead to difficulties. The author of a Local heritage book should make full use of the sources of content. You should not exclude certain groups of people (about strangers or without children ), specify occupations and social level of the people and also provide information about property and ownership if possible.
The construction of a local family book is largely normalized: Families should be arranged chronologically usually alphabetically, and then with respect to a family name.
For data backup is always an expression of all family data to advise on paper and deposited in the German National Library and Central Office.