[Web4lib] Genealogy in the Fast Lane: Part of History or Making History?

[vctinney at sbcglobal.net]

Genealogy in the Fast Lane: Part of History or Making History?

A recent update of University and College sites
indicates the latter.  I can only briefly review data
from one country and use one or two other examples.

SPAIN:
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/schoolscollegesuniversities.htm#Spain
Here we find a series of articles from
University of Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, re:
Biographical Perspectives on European Societies
http://www.um.es/ESA/pro_rn3.htm
Sessions include:  "Biographical Certainty".
How do people organize their life-course in
present society? to "IT WAS GOOD TO TALK."
CAN BIOGRAPHICAL INTERVIEWS CONTRIBUTE
TO SUCCESSFUL COPING WITH STRESSFUL
LIFE EVENTS AND SOCIO-CULTURAL PRESSURES?
A STUDY FROM NORTHERN IRELAND

Also, we can find from the  Autonomous
University of Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona  - Psychology Department:
Research Group on Social Memory, History
and Imaginaries: Social memory, construction,
history, historicity, genealogy, discourse, narrative,
conversation, multiple versions, social practices,
intersubjectivity, reflexivity, dialogue, meaning,
power relationships, agency, social imaginary,
temporality,

Social memory construction includes:
ACADEMIC GENEALOGY: Genealogy of
academic principles or ideas in specialized
bodies of teaching, (within dissertation or
other educational supervisory relationships),
as presented in a formal pedagogy from teacher
to student; showing thereby human intellectual
pedigrees of unbroken lineage succession.
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/academiceducationlearningresources.htm#Academicgenealogy

Power relationships in pedigrees appear at
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr.:  Ancestry
with:  Democrat Fakery On Obama, Biden
"Working Class" Origins; also,
http://www.goofigure.com/UserGoofigureDetail.asp?gooID=8776
NNDB People Profile: Tracking the Entire
World, visually by graphing connections
between people, as noted on main page.
http://www.nndb.com/

Family Genealogy & History Internet Education Directory
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/
Professional worldwide humanities and social sciences
mega portal, connected directly to thousands of related
sub-sets, with billions of primary or secondary database
family history and genealogy records.  It encompasses
all other key worldwide genealogy and surname sites.

Regional Genealogy and Local History Research:
Local History and Genealogy Portals to the World.
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/regionalgenealogy.htm
Regional genealogy and local history research includes:
areas, countries, directories, ethnic group populations,
organizations, local ancestry and local history studies.

Schools - Colleges - Universities:
Alumni and Genealogy Education
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/schoolscollegesuniversities.htm
Worldwide comprehensive resource of educational
institutions, their genealogy & family history data,
past & present students, alumni, associations,
faculty, friends and military personnel.
*  Academic Education Learning Resources:
    Educators
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/academiceducationlearningresources.htm

Respectfully yours,

Tom Tinney, Sr.
Listed in Who's Who in America:
(Millennium Edition [54th] through 2004)
Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry
http://groups.google.com/group/Family-Genealogy-and-History-Internet-Education-Directory/web/family-genealogy-and-history-internet-education-directory?hl=en