Family chronicle

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Page from the chronicle of the Zimmer family from the 16th century.

A family chronicle is the representation of a family history in chronological order, mostly divided into a "simple representation of the events according to the annual sequence, without any internal connection".

history

The first family chronicles were created in Renaissance Italy and a little later also in the trading towns on the other side of the Alps, such as the Fugger family chronicle in 1546. They form a new medium of bourgeois self-awareness and tradition.

In contrast to an ancestor list , ancestral list or other forms of genealogy results , a family chronicle is not tied to any fixed form. There are therefore many different ways of presenting a family chronicle, depending on whether the work focuses more on the previous generations or the relatives who are still alive , and what social position they had, what occupations they had and what sources are available. Family chronicles can contain picture documents and important documents of parents, grandparents and great-grandparents and their siblings. Connecting texts can be images of life written for ancestors and relatives.

Family chronicles today

The working method with the computer , which is now accessible to everyone, and the digitization of documents and photos enables the production of family chronicles with illustrative value and their reproduction. Printouts on paper can be given not only to relatives , but also in bound specimen copies to the German Library and to the Central Office for German Personal and Family History in Leipzig .

Examples of family chronicles

  • Niall Ferguson : The History of the Rothschilds. Prophets of money. 2 volumes. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart et al. 2002, ISBN 3-421-05354-5 .
  • Lothar Gall : middle class in Germany. Siedler, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-88680-259-0 (The history of the Bassermann family).
  • Johannes Hohlfeld : The Oldenburg family to Oldenburg and the Oldenbourg publishing family. A family chronicle over 4 centuries. R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1940.
  • Rüdiger Jungbluth : The Quandts. Your quiet rise to the most powerful economic dynasty in Germany. Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2002, ISBN 3-593-36940-0 .
  • Olof von Randow: The Randows. A family history (= German family archive . 135/136). Degener, Neustadt / Aisch 2001, ISBN 3-7686-5182-7 .
  • Percy Ernst Schramm : Nine Generations. Three hundred years of German “cultural history” in the light of the fate of a Hamburg bourgeois family. (1648-1948). 2 volumes. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1963–1964.

literature

  • Felix Carl-Emil Wiedergrün: The Tradition of the Early Modern Family Chronicles. The Eisenberger Chronicle. Grin, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-638-02446-4 (Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, housework (advanced seminar), 2006).
  • Maria Simon and Birgit Dombeck: Family chronicles as a genealogical representation option . Part I: Creation conditions and criteria for family chronicles. In: Genealogy. Vol. 47, 1998, pp. 322-338.
  • Birgit Dombeck and Maria Simon: Family chronicles as a genealogical representation option. Part II: attempting a typification. In: Genealogy. Vol. 48, 1999. pp. 399-409 and 457-464.
  • Maria Simon: Family-Job-Chronicles - a source of genealogical and interdisciplinary research. In: Familiengeschichtliche Blätter and messages from the Association for the Promotion of the Central Office for Personal and Family History and the Central Office in Berlin Foundation. NF Vol. 4, No. 29, 2000, ISSN  0427-9522 , pp. 457-474.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle. In: Herders Conversations-Lexikon. Volume 2: Cardatur to Fyt. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1854, p. 116 .
  2. ↑ Chronicle. In: Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 1: A-K. 5th edition. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1911, p. 345 .
  3. ↑ To: “Secret Ernbuch of the Fugger family” cf. Fugger. In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 7: Franzensbad - Glass House. 6th, completely revised and enlarged edition. New imprint. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig et al. 1907, pp. 194–195 .