Focus on Family Historians How Ancestor Research Affects Self-Understanding and Well-Being

• Other Authors: Moore, Susan M (Editor), Rosenthal, Doreen (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Humanities; Social interaction; family history; psychology; ancestry; identity construction; family tree; war trauma; attachment; identity; immigration; forgetting; emotional geography; context; environments; homelands; heritage; genealogical motivation; family history and identity; family history and altruism; family history and curiosity; secular rituals; post-religious; sacred stories; pilgrimage; family ritual; ceremony; historical consciousness; family history research; family historians; temporal orientation; case study; adoption; late-discovery; family secrets; shock and losses; historical trauma; traumatic reenactment; psychoanalysis; infant attachment; stress biology; Adverse Childhood Experiences; genealogy; depression; trauma; prolonged grief disorder; adverse childhood experiences; alcoholic; alcohol use disorder; bereavement; biological identity; family identity; DNA testing; thematic analysis; biogeographic ancestry; n/a; archaeology; bereavement studies; continuing bonds; problematic stuff; ancestors; personhood
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The articles in this Special Issue of Genealogy titled "Focus of Family Historians: How Ancestor Research Affects Self-Understanding and Well-Being" cover topics including the psychosocial motivations that impel family history research, its therapeutic and healing aspects, and the emotiona...