Re: Genealogy and family history

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:26:50 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:

> The business partner****p is part of the family history even though it is
not
> part of the genealogy, because genealogy is converned exclusively with
> bloodlines (or, more accurately, DNA lines), whereas family history is
not.

Not often we agree but we do here.  There is a big distinction between
the family history and genealogy.

Family history is about the history of a family which inevitably
touches on the entire picture, social conditions, the lot.

Genealogy is the outline of the picture only: names, dates and places
but nothing about what made the members of the family who and what
they were.

Most researchers start off as genealogists and some remain as such
while others broaden their research and become family historians which
can, for some broaden further and they become social historians.