Pedigree in the machine: the past and the future of genealogical computing.

all of which are dominated by amateur family historians, sometimes with a good background in computer science but not necessarily with an equally good understanding of historical research methodology. This lack of interest cannot be easily explained, especially as genealogy should be of almost universal interest because its findings are used by historians in many other historical subdisciplines. Discussing political history without recourse to royal genealogies is certainly impossible