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genealogy historical documents
A well-sourced chain can establish that a record was made without establishing the underlying biological or economic relationship. Genealogy's source hierarchy is a discipline for naming that gap.
comparative mythology textual criticism genealogy
In 1928 Joseph Bédier audited a field's published family trees and found they had the shape that let editors pick the answer they wanted. Three disciplines that hit genuine underdetermination, and what each does about it.
chronology genealogy graph algorithms
Three disciplines that will not take their own word for a result, and the three different things they each mean by independent.
Thirty generations back you should have a billion ancestors. There weren't a billion people. The arithmetic that fails there fails the same way in an exposure report.