SOCI011 - ASSIGNMENT - Fall 2004 - Section 1
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1. Your Ancestors and Their Occupations
In this assignment you will create a pedigree chart (i.e., a "family tree")
of your ancestors up to your great-grandparents and record the principal
occupation of each ancestor in addition to genealogical information (such as
date and place of birth, marriage, and death). Then you will submit
some of this information in a web form so we can examine the data for the class
as a whole.
The assignment has two main purposes:
- From a personal point of view, the assignment may help you establish a
clearer picture of who your ancestors were, their places of origin (and thus, the
languages they probably spoke), and their social condition. You may also
be able to check on some of the family lore: So you thought you were mainly
Irish with a bit of Italian thrown in? You may discover that your
ancestry is in fact mostly Italian, with only a bit of Irish, and a mysterious
Lebanese connection! While you may not
be very interested in your family history at this time, you should know that
many people become interested in their family history at some point in
their life. The advantage of establishing your pedigree chart now is
that you may have older relatives, such as grandparents and even
great-grandparents, who are still alive and able to provide you with the
information you need. The work you
do now will be an invaluable starting point if you become interested in
researching your family history later in life. So we suggest that
after you complete your pedigree chart you keep a copy of it in a safe place, perhaps with your passport or
birth certificate, to use as a starting point for future research.
- From the sociological point of view, the assignment will open a window on
the huge impact of the industrial revolution on the occupational composition
of the labor force, i.e. on the numbers of jobs of various kinds that people
hold. One way we will see this is by looking at trends in the kind of
occupations (jobs) that the ancestors of students in the class have held over
past generations. By combining family histories for the whole class
we will be able to see these trends clearly. We will see how the number
of ancestors in different occupational categories changed over generations,
and we will also discover how the ancestors of students who are at UNC today
may differ from the rest of the US population with respect to social origins,
even as far back as the great-grandparents generation.
2. General Instructions
To do the assignment you will work through the following steps.
- establish your Individual Pedigree Chart -- see Section 3 below
- working on a hard (printed) copy of this document, use your Pedigree
Chart to fill in the Family History Information Worksheet -- see Section 4
below
- go to this document on the web and use the information in the Family
History Worksheet to complete and
submit the Family History Webform -- see Section 5 below
- then, turn in by the deadline (1) hard copy of Individual Pedigree
Chart, (2) hard copy of this whole document with completed Family History
Information Worksheet
3. Completing Your Individual Pedigree Chart
You will work on a printed copy of
Alternatively you can use a version where you can enter your information
directly in the PDF file on the web and print it, although you cannot save
the file with your information:
NOTE: in either case the pedigree chart is a *.pdf file so you need a
computer with Acrobat Reader installed.
For each parent, grandparent,
and great-grandparent record on the chart
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full name (for married women use maiden name; if maiden name not known enter
first name only)
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date of birth (or christening)
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place of birth (or christening)
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date of death
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place of death
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marriage date and place (optionally)
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principal occupation of the person during his/her lifetime (EX: elementary school teacher,
paint sprayer, repaired radio sets, grocery checker, civil engineer, farmer,
farm hand)
For dates, you can choose to enter the year only. For places, give
enough information so that the place can be located unambiguously (EX:
Mebane, Orange, North Carolina; Ciney, Namur, Belgium; Paris VI, France; Grant,
Newaygo, Michigan). To find the information ask
your parents, grandparents, or other relatives who are likely to know.
For ancestors who are no longer alive you may be able to find information
on the LDS (Mormon) site at www.familysearch.org.
Return your pedigree chart with your assignment; it will be returned to you on
the day of the final exam. The information
you provide on your pedigree chart will be used only in summary form (e.g.,
to calculate the percentage of ancestors of the class as a whole with a
certain occupation) and only for the purpose of this assignment. Personal
information such as names of ancestors will be kept absolutely private and
will not be used or retained by the instructor or TAs after the end of the
semester.Special situations you may encounter:
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You are reluctant, for any reason, to reveal information about one or several
ancestors. In that case leave the corresponding fields blank; the data
will be considered "missing". Providing your genealogical information is
entirely voluntary. You do not have to explain why information is missing
to other people in the class or the instructors. Not providing the
information will not affect your score on the assignment.
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You are missing a piece of information. Don't make it up!
If you can make a reasonable guess, of a place or a date for example,
enter that guess. Otherwise just leave the field blank.
This unknown information will be considered "missing data". Leave the
corresponding fields blank in the Worksheet (Section 4) and the Webform (Section
5).
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You (or an ancestor) is adopted. In that case, you choose
which line of ancestors (adoptive or biological) you wish to pursue. From the point of view
of this assignment, it is better to pursue the line for which you have the best information, particularly on occupations.
But the choice is yours.
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Your parents (or other ancestors) are related. If some of your ancestors
are related you will find that the same person(s) appear(s) more than once
in your pedigree chart. For example, if your parents are first cousins, then
one couple of great-grandparents will appear twice in your pedigree.
In that case, enter the repeated individual twice on the chart,
as if they were different individuals. (If you wonder about the rationale for doing
this, it is akin to "sampling with replacement" among the ancestor generations.)
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You have a sibling in class who is working on the same assignment.
In that case, you and your sibling should each enter the data as if you were from
different families. Your family information will end up counted
twice, and that's the way it should be. (The rationale for this is the same as the previous special
situation.) You are of course more than welcome to collaborate with your
sibling on your common family history.
4. Summarize Your Family History Information in the Worksheet
Take your completed pedigree chart and transcribe the requested information
into the Family History Information Worksheet below. Then decide the appropriate numerical code for each place and
each occupation. You will find
detailed instructions on how to do this below the worksheet.
Family History Information Worksheet
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Ancestor |
Sex2 |
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Place of Birth |
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Principal Occupation |
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Father |
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Mother |
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Paternal Grandfather |
M |
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Paternal Grandmother |
F |
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Maternal Grandfather |
M |
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Maternal Grandmother |
F |
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Paternal Grandfather's Father |
M |
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Paternal Grandfather's Mother |
F |
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Paternal Grandmother's Father |
M |
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Paternal Grandmother's Mother |
F |
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Maternal Grandfather's Father |
M |
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Maternal Grandfather's Mother |
F |
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Maternal Grandmother's Father |
M |
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Maternal Grandmother's Mother |
F |
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Notes:
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SOSA is the "Sosa number" of your ancestor (named after
17th Century Spanish genealogist Gerome De Sosa). It is the number associated with your ancestor on
the Pedigree Chart. For instance, you are number 1; your father is 2, your
mother is 3, etc. The SOSA number identifies your ancestor exactly. Note that, except for yourself, men are always even and
women always odd (!). You should not modify this field. Just make
sure the SOSA number on the worksheet matches that on the pedigree chart.
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Code for Sex: enter yourself as M (male) or F (female).
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Code for place of birth. Enter the numerical code for place
of birth using the linked Place Codes list.
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Code for occupation. Enter the numerical code for each
occupation corresponding to the best category in the linked
Occupational Codes list. (These are the
occupational categories used by the Census Bureau until 1970.) For Self
enter the occupation that you expect to achieve, or leave blank if you don't
know. If you have questions about which code to assign contact the TA
who has been assigned to you (according to initial of last name, A - K:
Maired Moloney - Email:
moloney@email.unc.edu , L - Z: Darci Powell - Email:
dapowell@email.unc.edu ).
5. Submit Worksheet Information on the Webform
Use relevant information from the Family History Worksheet you just completed
to fill in the following webform. Then click the Submit button at the
bottom
of the form. If you are successful a window with the word Success! will
appear. Make sure you also turn in the requested hard copies by the
assignment deadline and you are done!
Last modified 27 Sep 2004