Geography and Genealogy Locating Personal Pasts
DALLEN J. TIMOTHY
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
JEANNE KAY GUELKE
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Ashgate
2008
Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
1 Locating Personal Pasts: An Introduction 1
Jeanne Kay Guelke and Dallen J. Timothy
PART I: TOOLS, SOURCES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR
GEOGRAPHY AND FAMILY HISTORY
2 The Unfolding Tale of Using Maps in Genealogical Research 23
Melinda Kashuba
3 Genealogy, Historical Geography, and GIS: Parcel Mapping,
Information Synergies, and Collaborative Opportunities 43
Mary B. Ruvane and G. Rebecca Dobbs
4 A Genealogy of Environmental Impact Assessment 63
William Hunter
5 Knitting the Transatlantic Bond: One Woman’s Letters to
America, 1860-1910 83
Penny L. Richards
6 Remaking Time and Space: The Internet, Digital Archives
and Genealogy 99
Kevin Meethan
PART II: GENEALOGY AS A CULTURAL PRACTICE
7 Genealogical Mobility: Tourism and the Search for a Personal Past 115
Dallen J. Timothy
8 Genealogy as Religious Ritual: The Doctrine and Practice of
Family History in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 137
Samuel M. Otterstrom
9 Genetics, Genealogy, and Geography 153
David C. Mountain and Jeanne Kay Guelke
10 Conclusion: Personal Perspectives 175
Dallen J. Timothy and Jeanne Kay Guelke
Index 185