Objective and Subjective Approaches to Genealogy

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Contents 1 Subjective Genealogy 2 Objective Genealogy	This is one of a series of articles on Genealogical Methods, prepared in association with The Tapestry. See Index for a list of related articles.

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This is a planned article on the two major approaches employed by genealogists as they develop their understanding of a set of family relationships: The Subjective Approach, vs The Objective Approach. Overall, these two approaches represent opposite ends of a spectrum of approaches, and no one uses one or the other approach exclusively. Ideally, we might wish to think that our work is always objective, but in truth even the most hardened objective genealogist makes use of subjective insights to further their work.

Subjective Genealogy

Objective Genealogy