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Using interviews, the media and Mass Observation to research the family history boom Dr Anne-Marie Kramer Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Department of Sociology, University of Warwick Research Methods Festival, Oxford Wednesday 7 th July 2010

The family history ‘boom’ Unparallelled public access to historical records New technologies Celebrity genealogy TV programmes Personal and family biographies & ‘rootedness’ remain extremely important & foundational to identity (Kramer, forthcoming) = Booming family heritage industry

The research project I ‘The cultural status of genealogy’ – Leverhulme funded Early Career Fellowship (Aug 2008 – present) Explores the meaning and consequences of the current boom in UK family history research for the individuals undertaking it, their families, and British society more broadly Interested in exploring how family history research functions in the personal life of individuals and families in relation to ‘connection, relationship, reciprocal emotion, entwinement, memory, history’ (Smart, 2007: 189)

The research project II Investigates how the meaning of family history is understood broadly within British society. Locates the family history phenomenon in relation to personal life Asks: what has stimulated the appetite for family history research or the quest for ‘rootedness’, and what sustains it what a focus on family history can offer to our understanding of how connectedness, relatedness and affinity function to mediate and structure personal and family lives.

Beyond the in-depth interview Sociologists need to innovate in terms of the methodological resources they use, going beyond the in- depth interview and the sample survey (Savage, 2007) A return to sociological description (Savage, 2007) Treating documents as more than inert texts, but actors in their own right (Prior, 2008)

Sources Media analysis: Broadsheet newspaper coverage of FHR (2000 – 2008) TV analysis (Who Do You Think You Are?) Genealogy magazines (6 monthlies) Mass Observation Directive, Summer 2008 Part 1 on ‘Doing Family History Research’ Interviews with archivists, professional and amateur family historians

Levels of analysis: who to research? Investigating the ‘boom’ – but from whose perspective? National – familial – individual & personal identities Multiple viewpoints: those identifying as family historians; those interested but not active; those with a family member involved in it; those actively ambivalent or hostile

Levels of analysis: Working with multiple texts Media saturation of everyday life: public representation of family history plus how media texts function and saturate personal lives Written versus oral responses Weaving the strands together

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