Digital Genealogy

The outputs of popular genealogy put to use by second-wave Digital Humanities

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Digital Genealogy?

The world has moved fast in four decades. The activity of genealogy with it.  Computers and digitisation have changed genealogy almost beyond recognition. We haven't talked about this change.

Whose site is this?

Dr Iain E Riddell, has been working with the outputs and products of digitised genealogy for the last fifteen years.  He makes use of the digital revolution of genealogy to discuss social and economic history of the long nineteenth century.

KinshipCollation.net

Iain's PhD thesis was focused on what can be achieved through genealogical endeavour in the digitised era. This work focused on kinship collation as a method and the new history from below insights that can appear when it is applied