Affinity table

An affinity panel or affinity list (of Latin affinitas " affinity ") is a compilation of genealogical results (family history research) that are not on the consanguineous limited relations of a person (see Konsanguinitätstafel ), but also the families by marriage takes people into the presentation. The affinity table, like the consanguineous table, is a combination of the pedigree or ancestral list and the descendant or descendant list . This means that an affinity table is subject to content-related restrictions to a greater extent than any other genealogical representation, for example the limitation to only a few generations . There is no system of graphical representation or numbering; Traditional boards and lists often fall back on master lists with the representation of small families (parents and their children).

Affinity tables in the narrower sense are usually based on a single person ( test subject ) in the middle, for example in the case of Otto von Bismarck , for whom such a table was created. But they can also include a social group , for example the affinity table of the Gießen Professorengalerie by Siegfried Rösch is formally an affinity table of the scientist Anton Orth , but in terms of content it shows the diverse blood-related and marital relationships within the professors of the University of Gießen and is limited to the purpose the clarity also on this.

In the case of affinity tables in the broader sense, the focus is not on an individual, but rather the genealogical interrelationships of several families are shown, for example for village communities. The restriction to the state at a certain point in time or a short period of a few years is chosen, whereby the repetition of the representation at different points in time then results in a stratified model of the social structure of the village community.