Tribe list

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The lists of regiments in the standing armies of the early modern period, based on the principle of anciency, are also understood as master lists . This would have to be taken into account here.

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A stem list is an excerpt from a list of descendants that only includes the bearers of the same family name .

In a genealogy, such a work result is often based on a mapping of persons with the same family name. Such a research approach only makes sense for relatively rare names.

In reference works , the family name is a sorting criterion and thus the family tree or family list is the natural form of representation, as is the case in family histories. Descendant tables and lists of descendants, on the other hand, predominate in monographs dedicated to a specific person and their descendants.

Compared to the family tree, the family list has the disadvantage of being less clear, but the latter also quickly becomes unwieldy as the family under consideration grows. Its key advantage is that it is relatively easy to incorporate supplements and expansions, so that it can keep pace with the development of research (and the development of the family) without having problems with formatting.

In both forms of representation, the oldest ancestor, the progenitor , the progenitor or the progenitor parents , is attached at the top, in contrast to the family tree , which sees him or her at the root. The other generations follow below in closed rows, horizontally for the family tree, vertically for the family tree.

With the family list, any intermediate level is conceivable between the extremes of an uninterrupted list over all generations and a structured list, the sections of which only include the respective nuclear family (parents and child). The yardstick for the structure is usually the attempt to maintain or save a maximum of clarity. With all forms it has proven to be useful that the next generation is indented a little to the right. The first parent is followed by the oldest child, in the case of a son with his own family, his descendants, perhaps over several pages, before moving back to the left and adding the second child to the first parent.

The uninterrupted list can be found in the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , the list with sections in the German Gender Book .

The numbering of the persons contained in the master list results automatically - provided that there are no problems with the sibling sequence - using the system known from the division of texts into chapters, subchapters, sections, paragraphs, etc. In the past, different number systems were used, Arabic numerals , Roman numerals , upper and lower case letters, Greek letters , to express the sequence of generations and the position within a generation. For example, in such a system 1.Dc2.α denotes a person from the fifth generation, the first child of the second child (1.Dc2) of the third child (1.Dc) of the fourth child (1.D) of the subject (1 ). A reduction of the system to Arabic numerals has the same significance, 1.Dc2.α would then be equivalent to 1.4.3.2.1. It should be noted, however, that the figure is not absolute, but only applies relative to a test person and changes consistently if a generation is added or removed at the top of the list. In addition, the same sequence of digits can occur for different people in the overall context if they are in an interrupted list in different branches of a family in comparable places (in the case of descendant lists, furthermore, due to the possible multiple occurrences of people within this list, the same people can have different numbers).