Genealogical Study Research Articles

Blacking Out the Archive in Jasminne Mendez's City without Altar

Abstract: This essay introduces readers to a recent choreopoem, or a play that is choreographed as a poem, by Afro-Latiné author, poet, playwright, performer, and educator Jasminne Mendez, titled City without Altar . The choreopoem centers the transhistorical experience of a massacre of Afro-Dominican and Haitian populations that occurred on the northern Dominican border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the town of Dajabón. I name it as transhistorical because of Mendez's intuitive and intersubjective mode of writing that connects her experiences with disabilities, which resemble those of el corte, with the afterlives of the victims themselves. I argue that Mendez provides a genealogical and aesthetic study of el corte that centers a Afro-Dominican femme interior life that is structured by the particularity of its afterlife.

Architectural Features of Churches in the Kaštela Coastal Area between 1492 and 1918

This paper aims to synthesize recent knowledge about the churches built between 1492 and 1918 in the Kaštela area and present its characteristics obtained by research in the doctoral thesis of the first author. The research covered 18 churches located in the coastal area. Fourteen churches have been preserved, two were pulled down, while the existence of two other churches was detected on old maps and in written documents. After a genealogical and catalogue study, a typological and stylistic analysis of the churches has been made. The longitudinal aisleless churches as a dominant shape vary in dimensions, type of construction, construction solutions and elements of architectural decoration.

The man with a plan: a genealogical study of the medicalisation and individualisation of the 2004 Norwegian drug treatment reforms

The man with a plan: a genealogical study of the medicalisation and individualisation of the 2004 Norwegian drug treatment reforms

Determination of predictive factors in families of girls with menstrual disorders comorbid with endocrine system pathology

Objective — to determine predictive factors in the families of girls with menstrual disorders comorbid with endocrine system pathology. Materials and methods. The genealogical analysis was carried out in the families of 47 girls with oligomenorrhea (OM) and 44 girls with abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) comorbid with endocrine system pathology. The comparison group consisted of the pedigrees of 30 families of healthy girls living in Kharkiv and Kharkiv Region. During the genealogical study, we observed the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being, and the relevant laws of Ukraine. The Student’s t­test was used to determine the significance of the differences between the signs. The predictive implications of the studied signs were determined by the Wald method with informativity estimation using the Kullback criterion. Results and discussion. Hereditary burden of reproductive, gynecological non­inflammatory, endocrine diseases and environmental factors was identified in the families of girls with OM and AUB comorbid with endocrine pathology: pernicious habits and stress in the mothers of sick girls before and during pregnancy, threatened miscarriage. Risk factors for the sick girls included artificial feeding of a girl, stress, traumatizing of a girl, and prolonged use of the Internet and gadgets. Among non­communicable diseases in relatives of sick girls, the most common were gynecological non­inflam­matory diseases when compared with the relatives of girls with AUB and healthy girls (p < 0.001), while relatives of healthy girls mostly suffered from nervous system disorders (p < 0.05). Common and distinct predictive signs in the families of girls with OM and AUB and comorbid endocrine pathology have been identified. Conclusions. The predictive factors in the families of girls with OM and AUB have been identified, the use of which will allow forming high-risk groups as regards the high risk of menstrual disorders based on the genealogical analysis.

ANDROIDGYNY: Reviewing Clustering Techniques for Android Malware Family Classification

Thousands of malicious applications (apps) are created daily, modified with the aid of automation tools, and released on the World Wide Web. Several techniques have been applied over the years to identify whether an APK is malicious or not. The use of these techniques intends to identify unknown malware mainly by calculating the similarity of a sample with previously grouped, already known families of malicious apps. Thus, high rates of accuracy would enable several countermeasures: from further quick detection to the development of vaccines and aid for reverse engineering new variants. However, most of the literature consists of limited experiments—either short-term and offline or based exclusively on well-known malicious apps’ families. In this paper, we explore the use of malware phylogeny, a term borrowed from biology, consisting of the genealogical study of the relationship between elements and families. Also, we investigate the literature on clustering techniques applied to mobile malware classification and discuss how researchers have been setting up their experiments.

Genealogy of Sayyid, Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Gazikumukhi (1788–1867) in the Light of the Newly Discovered Written Source of the 19th Century

This article is devoted to the study of genealogy of Dagestani Shaykh of Naqshbandi tariqa Jamāl al-Dīn al-Gazikumukhi (1788–1867) — prominent figure of state Imamat (1829–1859) in the North Caucasus. The newly discovered written source from the late 19th century, which is being introduced into scientific circulation, builds a genealogical chain from Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, to Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn. The letter also offers his version of the route of his ancestors’ migration from Arabia to Dagestan. This source is a letter written by Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn’s son to his nephew, the son of his sister Zahidat, who married Shamil, the Imamate leader (1834–1859). He managed to find this information in a document drawn up by his father in the 1840s, when he married his daughter to Shamil. At the same time, the documents on Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn’s belonging to the Sayyid estate were checked by the Imamat alim board, which had no doubts about their authenticity. The source we study gives the names of the shaykh’s ancestors only up to the beginning of the 17th century, and we reconstructed the rest of the genealogy on the basis of other written sources. The other part of the genealogy we reconstructed on the basis of independent sources. Representatives of this genealogical chain of earlier period in the alternative written sources we could not identify. Based on the results of our study, it is difficult for us to assess the reliability of the entire corpus of information of this source, according to which Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn was a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad in the 38th generation.

Notes toward a Demographic History of the Jews

As an essential prerequisite to the genealogical study of Jews, some elements of Jewish demographic history are provided in a long-term transnational perspective. Data and estimates from a vast array of sources are combined to draw a profile of Jewish populations globally, noting changes in geographical distribution, vital processes (marriages, births and deaths), international migrations, and changes in Jewish identification. Jews often anticipated the transition from higher to lower levels of mortality and fertility, or else joined large-scale migration flows that reflected shifting constraints and opportunities locally and globally. Cultural drivers typical of the Jewish minority interacted with socioeconomic and political drivers coming from the encompassing majority. The main centers of Jewish presence globally repeatedly shifted, entailing the intake within Jewish communities of demographic patterns from significantly different environments. During the 20th century, two main events reshaped the demography of the Jews globally: the Shoah (destruction) of two thirds of all Jews in Europe during World War II, and the independence of the State of Israel in 1948. Mass immigration and significant convergence followed among Jews of different geographical origins. Israel’s Jewish population grew to constitute a large share—and in the longer run—a potential majority of all Jews worldwide. Since the 19th century, and with increasing visibility during the 20th and the 21st, Jews also tended to assimilate in the respective Diaspora environments, leading to a blurring of identificational boundaries and sometimes to a numerical erosion of the Jewish population. This article concludes with some implications for Jewish genealogical studies, stressing the need for contextualization to enhance their value for personal memory and for analytic work.

Educational Institutions in Genealogical Studies on the History of Science and Technology

The purpose of the study is to analyse the peculiarities of using the archives of research and educational institutions as an integral part of the source base of genealogical research on the history of science and technology and to identify the degree of digitalisation of archival collections. The research methodology is based on theoretical developments in history and related sciences, as well as the use of basic approaches to cognition and dialectics, the application of the principles of historical science such as objectivity, scientificity, historicism, universality, systematicity, specificity; the principle of a specific historical approach – historicism – the integrity of the source. The organic blending of general scientific and special research methods in the complex makes it possible to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the topic. The methods of generalisation, analogy, synthesis, analysis, formal logic, as well as historical and chronological, historical and comparative, historical and genetic, historical and typological methods were used in the scientific search, which contributed to obtaining new results in the study of this topic. The scientific novelty of the article is to actualise the issue of using the funds of archives of research and educational centres in conducting genealogical research on the history of science and technology. The systematisation of historiographical sources containing information of genealogical nature is proposed, their information potential is characterised. The reliability degree of the identified sources and the need to introduce new components of the source base of genealogical research on the history of science and technology are determined. The methodological foundations for reconstructing the genealogies of Ukrainian scientists on the basis of representative, diverse sources have been further developed. The necessity of digitalisation of the archival collections of scientific and educational centres, the introduction of information technologies as the main factor in improving the quality of scientific research is substantiated. Keywords: archive, source base, genealogical research, electronic resources, information technology, librarianship, document.

Countering the Disadvantage: Stasis as an Emancipatory Minimalist Legacy in Chantal Akerman's Cinema

This article examines stasis in Chantal Akerman's cinema by means of a genealogical study into its minimalist origins in order to make visible its political operationality in her work and, by extension, its inherent political potential. Stasis is an aesthetic effect generated through the use of repetition, seriality, and duration in temporal media that proliferated in Minimalism across artforms and was taken up by Akerman during her séjour in New York in the early 1970s. The characteristic endless temporality created by stasis in temporal media takes shape in Minimalism due in part to the movement's literalist, phenomenological orientation, which at one point caused Minimalist art to be regarded as nonideological – this while the static quality in Akerman's work appears to be constitutive of its political character. A study of her early films Hotel Monterey (1972) and Je tu il elle (1974), clearly influenced by the Minimalist scene she was immersed in, illustrates how stasis emerges analogously in Minimalist music, dance, and Akerman's cinema. Minimalism's paradigmatically phenomenological orientation and its intricate entwinement with stasis are examined in relation to Akerman's work to reveal their inherent potential for political operationality in art.

SNPtotree-Resolving the Phylogeny of SNPs on Non-Recombining DNA.

Genetic variants on non-recombining DNA and the hierarchical order in which they accumulate are commonly of interest. This variant hierarchy can be established and combined with information on the population and geographic origin of the individuals carrying the variants to find population structures and infer migration patterns. Further, individuals can be assigned to the characterized populations, which is relevant in forensic genetics, genetic genealogy, and epidemiologic studies. However, there is currently no straightforward method to obtain such a variant hierarchy. Here, we introduce the software SNPtotree v1.0, which uniquely determines the hierarchical order of variants on non-recombining DNA without error-prone manual sorting. The algorithm uses pairwise variant comparisons to infer their relationships and integrates the combined information into a phylogenetic tree. Variants that have contradictory pairwise relationships or ambiguous positions in the tree are removed by the software. When benchmarked using two human Y-chromosomal massively parallel sequencing datasets, SNPtotree outperforms traditional methods in the accuracy of phylogenetic trees for sequencing data with high amounts of missing information. The phylogenetic trees of variants created using SNPtotree can be used to establish and maintain publicly available phylogeny databases to further explore genetic epidemiology and genealogy, as well as population and forensic genetics.

The Origins of the Royal Spanish Surname Castilla: Genetics and Genealogy

In most Western European societies, surnames pass from generation to generation and in cases where surnames are shared by fathers to children, the Y chromosome passes down from fathers to male offspring in the same way as surnames do. The aim of this study was to ascertain the patrilineal relationship between individuals with the surname “Castilla” and their respective Y-chromosome haplotypes. The toponymic surname “Castilla” is part of the Spanish royal family. Genealogical studies of this surname have allowed the formulation of different hypotheses about its origin, most of which were centered in Burgos. To shed some light on the origin of the surname Castilla and to investigate the possible co-ancestry behind the living carriers of this surname, markers located in the Y chromosome-specific region were analyzed in a sample of 102 men whose paternal surname was Castilla. The study aimed to establish the minimum number of founders and the expansion time of the lineages from our sample. Two major haplogroups were identified: R1b and E1b1b-M81. The high frequency of the E1b1b-M81 haplogroup in comparison to that of the general Spanish population, its low haplotype diversity, and its young TMRCA (323+/− 255 years CE) are compatible with the historical timing of the obligation to use surnames. However, the coincidence of the most common haplogroup in the Castilla sample and the most frequent haplogroup in the Spanish general population, R1b, makes it difficult to identify founder haplotypes/haplogroups in the history of the Castilla surname.

The legal construction of management: a neo-realist framing and genealogical case study

ABSTRACT The practice of corporate management is not wholly prior to the legal interventions which have sought to shape it since the first emergence of modern industry. A genealogical case study of mine safety legislation discloses the coevolutionary dynamic through which corporate law and practice have been mutually adjusted over time. Revealing the juridical roots of management highlights the importance of law as a normative grounding for the economy. It also validates a neo-realist conception of corporate law, which understands law to be part of the social reality which it constructs. Viewing law this way clarifies the issues at stake in notions of corporate responsibility, both in history, when the vertically integrated business corporation was in the process of being formed, and under current conditions, when it is fragmenting.

A Genealogical Study of the History of Philippine Terrorism

A Genealogical Study of the History of Philippine Terrorism

The impact of institutional interactions on cluster response to innovation: The case of Montreal and neural machine translation

AbstractDespite the importance of institutions in the cluster literature, scholarship has struggled with its conceptualization of institutions, resulting in an incomplete portrait of diverse phenomena. In response, we crystallize a hybrid stream of institutionalism that has emerged in the economic geography literature and propose the construct of institutional interactions to provide structural and relational insight into cluster‐wide resistance to innovation. By pairing network analysis with a genealogical study of the Montreal translation cluster, we isolate the impact of institutional interactions and find preliminary support for the redundancies created by institutional brokers and institutional network characteristics. We demonstrate how to use the construct of institutional interactions to diagnose constraints to innovation in an institutional environment.

Analysis of 27 STR markers of the chromosome Y in the population of the jungle from Peru

Y-chromosome-specific short tandem repeat (Y-STR) markers reside on the non-recombinant portion of the Y chromosome, their inheritance is paternal, they are not detectable in female DNA. These properties make Y-STRs a useful tool in forensic investigations such as sexual assault, parenting, and other violent crimes; likewise they are also useful in genealogical and evolutionary studies. The objective of the research is to expand the scientific evidence of the distribution by region or country of the Y sex chromosome haplotypes. Similar studies in Peruvian populations are scarce due to the smaller number of Y-STR polymorphisms frequently used in Forensic and Population Genetics.Material and method: In the investigation, 141 DNA samples from the jungle of Peru were analyzed, of which comprised of 104 samples from Iquitos region (Loreto), 29 samples from Awajun (Amazonas) and 8 samples from Tambopata (Madre de Dios). The samples were processed using direct PCR with the Yfiler™ Plus PCR Amplification kit for 27 STRs, the amplified products were analyzed by capillary electrophoresis on the Applied Biosystem™ 3500XL Genetic Analyzer, and the data obtained was imported into the GeneMapper® ID-X v1.5 software to generate the genetic profiles. With the results obtained, the statistical analysis and the population structure were carried out.Results: Of the 141 samples, 106 unique haplotypes were observed. Gene diversities for each Y-STR marker ranged from .317 to .919. The haplotype diversity for the total sample was .9906. This study supports that the Y-STR haplotypes in this population are highly polymorphic in the analyzed population and, therefore, are very useful in forensic studies of human identification, as well as in population genetics when investigating groups or individuals from Latin America.

Kinship network evolution in Argentina. An exploration based on online data

We present the initial stages of a research project for a big data genealogical study. Consanguineous ties among members of a family form kinship networks. Family is the first social network for actors and historically was the source of education, support, and socialization. Family is still the source of power in the royalty, and family business has commonly been the first stage for future big firms. Nepotism is still a usual practice in politics and civil service. We analyze contributions to population evolution and propose to empirical test theoretical results. For that to be accomplished, we gather online data and present an initial descriptive analysis. In the end, following previous contributions, we also extend data usage for identifying historical lineages from colonial times in Argentina and analyzing if that antecedent portrays different benefits to descendants.

RESEARCH GENUS: SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL AND EXISTENTIAL ASPECTS

The purpose of this study is to identify and further analyze the socio–philosophical and existential aspects of gender research. Main tasks: to show the features of the development of genealogy in the historical aspect; to consider the study of the pedigree from the point of view of the individual’s realization of existential needs. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that the author has attempted to analyze the study of gender not only as a research activity, but also as a significant and important socio-philosophical and existential practice for an individual.
 The article reflects the peculiarities of the development and attitude to genealogy in various historical periods of the development of our state. The study of the microhistory of the genus, family becomes an important source for the knowledge and understanding of the broad historical, socio-cultural context into which many generations of our ancestors were embedded.
 At the moment, genealogy is facing many challenges, one of the key ones being its commercialization. However, any challenge is not only a problem, but also a certain factor of development. In particular, genealogy is becoming an important element of interdisciplinary scientific research.
 The author believes that the study of one’s own pedigree can be analyzed according to the formula of the five existential needs of E. Fromm. The individual, realizing existential needs, moves along the path of self-perfection. As a result, he comes to a sense of security, establishes the necessary connections, finds his purpose and vocation in this world, forms a system of values and normative attitudes.
 The study of the genus is a significant socio-philosophical practice that enables an individual to integrate into the system of family ties and relationships, to join the values of their ancestors, to understand and realize their own «I», to develop genealogical culture, to realize the fundamental existential needs.
 The main theoretical results presented in this work can be applied within the framework of specific historical and genealogical studies, in the field of social philosophy, cultural studies and other, including interdisciplinary scientific fields, as well as used in the development of relevant special courses and electives.

Where is the l(ove)? Excavating law and labour in The Redress of Law

AbstractIn his monograph The Redress of Law, Emilios Christodoulidis provides a sophisticated genealogical study of the emergence of total market thinking in Europe. With market constitutionalism having sidelined political constitutionalism, the potential of law to organise the political community is significantly restricted. By examining the commodification of labour, processes of bargaining, unemployment, and strikes, Christodoulidis demonstrates the destructive consequences of law in the service of market rationalities as well as its potential for strategic action to build collective identity in the EU (European Union).Yet, I argue that this book comes with two significant blind spots, namely a dated understanding of both law and labour. First of all, Christodoulidis’s systems theoretical understanding of law is neglecting the material conditions that law continuously re-produces in the course of globalization. Secondly, his vision of labour remains rather traditional, focused on unionised, white, and male workers. Both elements are central pillars of his analysis but do not reflect the current reality of the 21st century. In this Article, I challenge his conceptualization by situating his work in recent research on the role of law and labour regulation in global capitalism.

Семейные родословные как речевой жанр

The genre of family pedigrees is now becoming more widespread. However, as a speech genre, it has hardly been studied. The author began collecting data on genealogies in 2002, compiled a personal archive of family genealogies in 30 volumes, which is partly reflected in the database “Fragments of family genealogies”: certificate of state registration of the database No. 2014620814 dated June 3, 2013. Three dissertations on this issue have been defended and a large number of articles and books have been published. Now arises a question of the peculiarities of pedigrees as a speech genre. The preparation of the book “History of the Motherland in the Mirrors of Family Genealogy” (Belgorod, 2021, 420 p.) brings up this topic. It turns out that it is fragments from genealogies, taken in the plural, and comments to them that allow us to more objectively consider the history of the country in all its contradictions and cataclysms. Fragments of pedigrees become research material. The first part of the book deals with history (the revolution, the 1920s, the 1930s, etc.), the second – with family (grandfather, grandmother …). Between these parts there is a life environment, a spatial sector which we cannot avoid. In the end, a forward is made to the present time with the emphasis on how family genealogies insured people against many troubles. The article aims both at the study of family genealogy and at recording what else can be recorded and preserved for future descendants.

Genetic and genealogical (genealogical) study of the genus Nilogovoi (based on the DNA of autosomes)

The article deals with the problem of genetic and genealogical (genealogical) verification of the documentary pedigree of the Nilogovs, reconstructed by the methods of classical genealogy. Thanks to the testing of male and female representatives of the genus Nilogov on the DNA of autosomes, it was possible to genealogically confirm the documentary pedigree of the author of the article to his direct ancestor Semyon Danilovich Nilogov, who lived in the XVIII century. The object of study is the biological pedigree of the Nilogovs, and the subject is the archival and documentary reconstruction of the pedigree of the Nilogovs before the XVIII century. The source base of the work was the collections of such archives as: the State Archive of the Perm Territory, the Komi-Permyatsky District State Archive, the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, the archive of the city of Minusinsk; personal archives of several Nilogov families were also used. The novelty of the work is the application of modern genetic and genealogical methodology for the objectification of a specific documentary pedigree by certifying biological kinship in the "descendant – ancestor" chain. Specifically, the genetic relationship of two distant relatives N. A. Nelogov and R. A. Arinicheva was studied at the level of the sixth degree. Thanks to testing of autosomal DNA of these donors, it was possible to identify their common nucleotide segments (text sequences in the form of nitrogenous bases), after which, using the statistical database of genetic kinship, The Shared cM Project 4.0., it was possible to confirm the documented reconstructed pedigree. The introduction of modern methods of molecular genetics (biological science) into scientific genealogy (historical science) is an actual trend of systemic (interdisciplinary) research.