“Who We Are, and Why We Do It”: A Demographic Overview and the Cited Motivations of Australia’s Family Historians

Title: “Who We Are, and Why We Do It”: A Demographic Overview and the Cited Motivations of Australia’s Family Historians
Creator: Shaw, Emma
Relation: Journal of Family History Vol. 45, Issue 1, p. 109-124
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363199019880238
Publisher: Sage
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2019
Description: The multibillion-dollar family history industry is booming in popularity as millions of people around the world are seeking to connect with their ancestral pasts. This article presents some of the findings of a recent Australian study that explored the research practices and historical thinking of family historians. The data presented and discussed here are drawn from 1,406 survey responses and present a demographic and social overview of the survey respondents. It categorizes the cited motivations of family historians in Australia for commencing their familial research, which are much more intrinsic and personal than other studies in this field suggest.
Subject: family history; family historians; motives; family history research
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1481234
Identifier: uon:50680
Identifier: ISSN:0363-1990
Language: eng
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