THE DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AS A TOOL FOR THE WORK IN GENEALOGY FROM THE FAMILYSEARCH.ORG BASE

Abstract

The article discusses the dual path of importance between language/archive and archive/society, mediated by archival and genealogical information, as well as deliberations about the archivist's conceptual making. The main objectives of the text are,a priori, to deliberate on the discussion stemming from the language applied to the file and, a posteriori, to draw the dichotomy of memory. In order to reach this objective, the authors used a literature review specific to the area, both documentary analysis and indexation of genealogy data, in order to delineate an interdisciplinary panorama between the objects of study and the operation of the aforementioned base, in order to complement the theory and practice of information processing. Nonetheless, it was accessed the program provided by the site and a brief analysis was made of the process of development of the indexing activity, which in turn is carried out by volunteers from various parts of the world, provided with the desire to contribute to the registration of the family history of mankind. As a result of the research, the article presents specific elucidations regarding the archivist's making within a social context steeped in history concerning a particular society and its genealogy. The main inferences found in the course of this study lead one to believe that there is a certain indissociable and essential character between the language - written and nonverbal - and the archive itself, as well as between the archive and society, so that one depends on the other memory-specific functions.  These results culminate exactly from the practice of documentary analysis with respect to the descriptive and conceptual treatment of the information contained in the creation and storage of genealogical trees.