Modern Research
Genealogy, a popular hobby, received
a big boost in the late 1970s with the premiere
of the television adaptation of Alex Haley's
fictionalized account of his family line,
Roots: The Saga of an American Family [3].
With the advent of the Internet, the number
of resources available to genealogists has
vastly increased; however, some of these sources
must be treated with caution due to issues
of accuracy.
Research efforts sometimes specialize on:
types of relationships among people such as
kinship to a particular group, e.g. a Scottish
clan; a particular surname such as in a one-name
study; a small community, e.g. a single village
or parish, such as in a one-place study; or
a particular person such as Winston Churchill
or Jesse James. |
