Family Genealogy’s Contributions to the Philosophical Problem of Birth

Hatton, Stephen B.

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“…This bringing forth to light, into the open, this unconcealing, is a presenting of beings, for the applicable knowing is of beings. Genealogy is a know-how of origins of self-one's self, another's self, and the establishment of one's non-original origination (one's own personal origin is his/her conception and birth, but one's birth originates out of the lives of one's parents, grandparents, etc., and thus is non-original) (Romano 2009;Hatton 2018). It establishes, that is, sets forth a traditional (in the sense of a real tradition) transubjectivity that is nourished by and in a hereditary capital fund (Ricoeur 1966, p. 434).…”

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History, Kinship, Identity, and Technology: Toward Answering the Question “What Is (Family) Genealogy?”

Hatton¹

2019

Genealogy

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The article attempts to move beyond cursory definitions to explore the fundamental core and practice of genealogy. Some genealogical writers think that it is history or a subset of history. Others view it as a study of kinship, or relations, and identity. Though technology is increasingly used as a tool to do genealogy, it is not viewed as its essence. The article moves toward an answer to the question “what is genealogy?” through four interventions directed at these four concepts. It examines history, kinship, identity, and technology in relation to genealogy. It demonstrates key differences between history and genealogy. It discusses the use of the genealogical model in anthropology, and then relates how sociology views kinship as social. Four kinds of identity are relevant to genealogy, but none answers what genealogy is. The article argues that genealogy is a technology in the ancient Greek sense. Technē is primarily a kind of practical knowledge with characteristics congruent with genealogy’s project. Genealogy is a technē in its essence rather than history, a study of kinship, or a study of identity.

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“…Birth, and one can also say conception, is one's origin that cannot be originarily known or brought directly to self-presence (Romano 2009, p. 29). It is an impossible self-conscious bringing to presence (Hatton 2018).…”

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History, Kinship, Identity, and Technology: Toward Answering the Question “What Is (Family) Genealogy?”

Hatton¹

2019

Genealogy

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“…116 This connects closely to philosopher Edmund Husserl's thoughts 117 about being born into an ancestral heritage. 118 A woman's identity is altered in response to the child. In intimate symbiotic relation with the child, the format and framing of the mother's space and especially time transform into responsibility for another person, her child.…”

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Female connection method: using a social network approach to genealogical research in the search for the mother of Margaret Champion

Hatton¹

2018

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The search for Margaret Champion's mother is accomplished using two approaches. The first employs the FAN (friends, associates, neighbors) method and direct evidence. Associates in eighteenth-century America (and elsewhere and in other eras) were predominantly male because it was overwhelmingly males who participated in transactions and organizations that indicated association. A brief consideration of some of the philosophical and sociological theories of feminism, however, shows the critical role of women in connecting families together over time and binding family units united in marriage. Often male FAN associations were dependent on female connections. Thus, the second approach combines the female connection method and direct evidence. In some cases, this method not only leads to solutions to practical genealogical problems but also explains the reasons families were networked. This case study illustrates both approaches. Its research subject is Margaret Champion who lived in Pennsylvania and Ohio in the United States, and who died in Ohio in 1843. She was chosen for this case study because she served a pivotal role in her extended family. The genealogical research goal is to learn who her mother was. The article opens with establishing who her father was. Beginning the search in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, it first uses a combination of clues gathered from direct evidence and the FAN method. After achieving the end goal of identifying her mother, the article next illustrates how the problem is also solved using the female connection method without the FAN method. Of course, these two methods may be used together to bolster the proof argument. Margaret Champion When Christian Zimmerman * wrote his undated will in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, he named Margaret Champion as one of his children. 2 It was written between 1803 (it mentions daughter Sarah who was born in about 1803) 3 and 7 November 1805 (when the will was proved). 4 The will did not specify who Margaret's husband was, but referred to Zimmerman's plantation "where John Champion now lives," strongly suggesting

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Family Genealogy’s Contributions to the Philosophical Problem of Birth

Cited by 2 publications

References 37 publications

History, Kinship, Identity, and Technology: Toward Answering the Question “What Is (Family) Genealogy?”

History, Kinship, Identity, and Technology: Toward Answering the Question “What Is (Family) Genealogy?”

Female connection method: using a social network approach to genealogical research in the search for the mother of Margaret Champion

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