With the rise in popularity of ancestral research many people have had to search for some records abroad and are therefore reliant on access to archives in more than one country. One of the countries heavily reliant on archives abroad is Australia, a multicultural country that received many British settlers from 1788. The purpose of this master thesis is to understand the importance of accessing this archival information between Australia and England and how the international gaps between countries can make ancestral research difficult. The theoretical starting point for this study is Saar’s (2017) three genealogical dimensions which I will use to analyse the responses gained from the relevant actors within the field such as archivists and librarians, when trying to find out what can be done by them to help understand and bridge the gaps in ancestral research between countries. All data has been collected through online interviews with both Australian archivists and some selected libraries that have archival holdings. The results of the study show that Australians studying family history rely on access to England’s records because their pasts are otherwise incomplete without them. Not only this but there is a need to understand their own story in Australia’s complicated history. The study also shows that ancestral research needs both archivists, genealogists, librarians, and other history sleuths who can find and connect the information.

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Family genealogy research has grown exponentially over the past decade, making it an area worthy of scholarly inquiry (Smith, 2010). Genealogy is now one of the world's most popular hobbies, with hundreds of millions of people worldwide actively engaged in some form of family research (Veale, 2004). In the United States, there has recently been a significant increase in the interest of searching out one's genealogical roots (Triseliotis, 1998). For most young people, the years from late teens to early twenties represent a period of profound change (Arnett, 2000). Many young adults search for and solidify their identity during the years they attend college (Muuss, 1996). Few research studies have examined the experience of searching one's genealogy and the impact it might have on college student development. This study focused on the experiences of college students who were searching their own personal ancestry in an undergraduate class on family history/genealogy. Participants reported that researching their family history (a) ignited or intensified a strong interest in genealogical research, (b) developed connections, closeness, and bonds to ancestors which motivated them in their lives, (c) discovered shared physical and personality characteristics, (d) impacted their current relationships with living relatives, (e) stimulated spiritual experiences, and (f) influenced their identity development.

There is a need to have an automated system that can read family history books or other historical texts and extract as many genealogy facts as possible from them. Embley and others have applied traditional information extraction techniques to this problem in a system called OntoES with a reasonable amount of success. In parallel much linguistic theory has been developed in the past decades, and Lonsdale and others have built computational embodiments of some of these theories using Soar. In this thesis we introduce a system called OntoSoar which combines the Link Grammar Parser using a grammar customized for family history texts with an innovative semantic analyzer inspired by construction grammars to extract genealogical facts from family history books and use them to populate a conceptual model compatible with OntoES with facts derived from the text. The system produces good results on the texts tested so far, and shows promise of being able to do even better with further development.

This thesis is a study of the growth and development of the various departments of the Genealogical Society and how they contributed to the function of the total organization. The following was considered with each department: (1) the date of organization, (2) purpose for which organized, (3) methods used to carry out responsibilities, (4) function and interaction with other departments of the organization.Activities of the Genealogical Society were evaluated on the basis of the following major roles: (1) as an agency for locating researchers, (2) agency to make records available to search, (3) a clearing house for records prior to their submission to temples and more recently, (4) as a supplier of names for temples.The First Presidency organized the Society to assist people in their responsibility to search after their own forefathers and each of the leaders since its organization has introduced programs in accordance with this purpose.

The Genealogical Society of Utah initiated a worldwide microfilming program at the advent of modern microfilm technology. It succeeded in negotiating for and filming records because of the religious commitment of its leaders and workers, the financial assistance of the LDS Church, the increased concern for records loss as demonstrated by World War II, the maturation of microfilm technology after the war, and the concentration of many religious records in civil archives. Religious commitment enthused the Society's leaders to persist in their efforts in spite of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The resources of the Church permitted the filming to continue without regard to profit. The destruction of World War II made archival leaders more amenable to the Society's program as a means to preserve the information in their records from catastrophic loss. The development of microfilm technology made the production of a good image possible and affordable. With religious records in civil archives, the efforts of religious leaders to restrict access were more easily overcome than might have been the case.

This thesis explores the reception history of Antinous, favourite to the roman emperor Hadrian. Using Michel Foucault's genealogical method, the aim of the thesis is to examine and conclude that Antinous is still, albeit at times hidden, the archetype of the young beautifulman in Western visual culture by examining the expressions of the representation and reception of Antinous as a male ideal of beauty and its change over time. The thesis also poses the question whether it is possible, with the employment of Foucault’s concept of genealogy, to approach the development over time of Antinous’s discourse, and to establish that its core is a male ideal of beauty that can at any time be linked, explicitly or implicitly, to Antinous. Furthermore, in order to answer the research questions and thus, be able to trace Antinous's reception, this essay uses material that lies outside a purely art historical discipline. In addition to artistic and visual images of Antinous från antiquity to the late nineteen-eighties, widespread fiction from authors such as Oscar Wilde, Thomas Mann and Herman Bang alongwith the feature films The Wings and Death in Venice have been thoroughly investigated in search of an Antinous type, along with the art historical writings of Johan Joachim Winckelmann and Viktor Rydberg. Lastly, the study succeeds in conveying that Antinous's distinctive traits, which arose from an apotheosis nearly two thousand years ago and which began when the historical figure Antinous ended his days in the Nile, have survived both a disappearance from the public consciousness and a coding as a homosexual icon and, for that specific reason, a concealment during different succeeding historical periods. Nevertheless, as this thesis establishes, the image and myth of Antinous has still operated whilst remaining in a hidden existence, and in spite of all the above, these traits have re-emerged as universal male traits in a typology of beauty whose overall significance for the male ideal is conspicuously provable.

Syftet med den här uppsatsen var att utforma ett kursupplägg till A-kursen i historia pågymnasiet som utgår från perioden 1900-2009. Vi ville undersöka om man genom ett sådantupplägg kunde uppnå kursmålen och samtidigt skapa ett bra underlag för att fördjupahistoriemedvetandet hos eleven. Historiemedvetande och genealogi var två centrala teoretiskabegrepp i utformandet och utvärderingen av upplägget. I kursupplägget arbetar vi oss framåtgenetiskt från år 1900 och gör genealogiska kopplingar till den tidigare historien. Perioden1900-2009 delades in i 10 arbetsområden, där viktiga händelser och skeenden behandlades,och utifrån vilka genealogiska kopplingar gjordes. Vi fann att samtliga kursmål för historia Abör kunna uppnås med detta upplägg. Genom att fokusera på nutidsperspektivet i elevenshistoriemedvetande tror vi också att de övriga perspektiven förstärks, vilket förhoppningsvisleder till ett fördjupat historiemedvetande. De genealogiska kopplingarna i vårt kursuppläggtror vi förtydligar sambandet mellan nutid och dåtid och stärker den enskilde elevensuppfattning om sig själv och sin plats i historien. / The aim of this thesis was to construct an outline for the A-course in history in senior highschools, focusing on the period 1900-2009. We wanted to investigate if such an outline couldachieve the aims for the course and deepen the history awareness of the students. In theoutline we work forward genetically from the year 1900 and make genealogical connectionsto the earlier history. History awareness and genealogy were important concepts in theconstruction and evaluation of the outline. The period 1900-2099 was divided into 10 studyareas, where essential events and developments were touched on and from which genealogicalconnections were made. We found that all the aims of the History A-course should beachieved with this outline. By focusing on the present perspective in the history awareness ofthe students we believe that the other perspectives are improved as well, which hopefullyleads to deepened history awareness. We believe that the genealogical connections in ouroutline clarify the link between the present and the past and increase the individual student’sconception of herself and her place in history.

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