Genealogical data in museum practice: its collecting, systematization, storage and usage
Genealogy as a scholarly discipline collects and systematizes historical data regarding family origins and pedigrees. In museum practice however genealogical, as well as biographical, information also needs to be efficiently stored and used, for which purpose arises the requirement for a specific method. An experience of storage and usage of genealogist Y. Shmarov’s collection can present a methodological framework applicable for literary, memorial, history and local history museums, since genealogical studies there form a part of everyday work, including examination and attribution of items and their exhibit.