Genealogic Tree and Social and Psychological Aspects of Family Functioning

The article presents the view on genealogical tree as a unique social community. We consider the genealogical tree as a complicated organism which has its own trajectory of development in social and historical environment. We consider also, that it reflects the family history across several generations by various forms of personal activities: seeking and finding a spouse partner, reproductive and parental activities, education, career and migration mobility. Because of a great variety of personal responses, there must be different types of genealogical trees, which we will try to identify. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.