Geography and Genealogy Locating Personal Pasts

 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


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