The Family Historian and Temporal Orientations Towards the Ancestral Past
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5154087 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald D Lambert (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 115-143 |
| Publication date | 1996-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Time & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0961463x96005002001 |
| OpenAlex | W2062738823 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 15 |
In a society preoccupied with the future, genealogists or family historians devote a great deal of effort to constructing family ancestry on paper and in the mind, and situating the ancestral family in its historic time and place. This study explores the temporal orientations, and the content of these orientations, which genealogists bring to this activity. Findings are reported from a 1994 mail survey of 1348 members of a Canadian genealogical society. In addition, this paper examines the relationship between historical time and autobiographical time, and the impact of the family historian role on personal identity and family culture
Aesthetics · Art · Family tree · Genealogy · Identity (music · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History
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Narrating family histories
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Practising family history
Haunted by 'Miscegenation
Reclaiming the ancestral past
Antimethodology
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Mail and telephone surveys
Variations in Value Orientations
The Invention of Tradition
Social Dislocations and the Search for Genealogical Roots
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Timewatch
Deferred Gratification, Social Class, and the Achievement Syndrome
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| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,04 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |