Trustworthy Communications and Complete Genealogies: Unifying Ancestries for a Genealogical History of the Modern World

Description

This book discusses how a genealogical history of the modern world can be created by linking the Royal Families of Western Europeans database to Unifying Ancestry.  This new edition extends the original analysis by including a coherence metric to evaluate the content of the Unifying Ancestry database, which is freely available online educational software within the CoreGen3 analysis workbench.  The author discusses why common ancestors of the Royal Families of Western Europe comprise an optimal Unifying Ancestry experience and further illustrates this by using historically influential people as examples.  Specifically, algorithms for validating the Unifying Ancestry are applied to a 330,000-person Research Genealogy and then used to link to historical royal descendants.  Genealogical evaluation properties for consistency, correctness, closure, connectivity, completeness and coherence are demonstrated.  These properties are applied to a Research Genealogy to generate a unifying ancestry for western Europeans.  The unifying ancestry is then used to create a genealogical history of the modern world.  All the analyses can be reproduced by readers using the Unifying Ancestry CoreGen3 program.  Preface Contents 1 Introduction Communication with the Future Communication from the Past Genealogy Test Case Unifying Ancestries References 2 Research Genealogy Research Genealogy Creation National Communities References 3 Research Genealogy Knowledge Base Research Genealogy—Consistency Research Genealogy—Correctness Research Genealogy—Closure Research Genealogy—Connectivity Connectivity—Descendant Fractional Distribution Connectivity—Global Connectivity Metric Connectivity—Own Cousin Relationship Connectivity—Local Connectivity Metric Research Genealogy—Completeness Progenitors for Western Europeans Research Genealogy—Coherence Essential Information Metric Historically Notable Persons References 4 Genealogical History of the Modern World Historically Influential Persons Reference 5 Trustworthy Communications Genealogy Communications Reference 6 Summary Appendix A: Cousin Relationship Terminology Appendix B: Sample Lineages to the Unifying Ancestry Progenitors Appendix C: Sample Lineages for Linking Historically Influential Persons to the Unifying Ancestry Appendix D: Sources Referenced in the Lineages Appendix E: Algorithms Used to Analyze Genealogies Glossary