A Suggested Taxonomy of Genealogy as a Multidisciplinary Academic Research Field.

Genealogy has been practiced by people all over the world for many years, and in recent years, its leveraging to the academic level has been suggested. Mostly, discussions about the academization of genealogy were focused on teaching in the field, rather than on promoting it as a legitimate research field. This article suggests taxonomy for genealogy as an academic multidisciplinary research field. The taxonomy consists of six components: people, families, communities, representations, data, and bird’s-eye view. This taxonomy demonstrates how
genealogy is related to many other existing disciplines, highlights its unique points of view, and hence, promotes it as a separate field of study. The discussion goes further and recommends a way of actually building this new academic community in a bottom-up fashion, gathering currently affiliated scholars from other disciplines who will together work for constructing the
new field.