What is a continuation spectrum? To put it bluntly, it is to find someone, find out all the people in a family, and then record them in the genealogy.

After the "Cultural Revolution", some genealogies were still not burned. In recent years, some families have begun to do the work of continuing genealogy. But some didn't continue. There are some old genealogies that don't pick up their ancestors, don't pick up their descendants, or pick up their ancestors but don't pick up their descendants. Shen Minfeng, an old man who studies genealogy, said that this is called dating genealogy. It has lost its present function and long-term significance in the future.

It is understood that some old genealogies have not been renewed for 70 or 80 years now, and they have not been renewed for nearly 100 years for a long time. If the genealogy is not extended for a long time, some genealogies will lose their due functions. It is said that the largest museum in Shanghai now has more than 80,000 volumes of genealogy archives, more than other countries, ranking first in the world. Some people pay a high price to buy it, but they don't sell it at any price, and it is preserved as a national cultural relic for a long time.

As a kind of inheritance and development of traditional culture, genealogy is our responsibility.

Some families want to continue the genealogy, but because it takes a long time to get rid of history, it is difficult to find people, so some families give up the work of continuing the genealogy, and some want to continue the genealogy, but there are many difficulties.

I once did a stage of genealogy continuation work and encountered many problems and difficulties. I am discouraged and don't want to continue. But with the help of the people concerned, I overcame the difficulties. With the help of my family, after 15 years of hard work, I found 378 family members. I found everything I needed, and finally completed the task of continuing my family tree.

In the work of continuing my family tree, I was educated, enlightened and learned a little experience. Only by establishing a long-term mechanism can we ensure the longevity of genealogy. It took 15 years to renew the genealogy this time, and the next genealogy can be completed in two months, which can save time, manpower and material resources and ensure the long-term existence of genealogy.

First, why do you want to continue the genealogy? What is the purpose and significance of genealogy?

Some people say that it is useless to update the genealogy now, and there is no need to have a genealogy. There is nothing absolutely useful in the world, but there is nothing absolutely useless. Useful and useless are relative. This is realistic, feasible and effective. We say genealogy is useful.

(1) Origin and consanguinity

Genealogy records the origin, survival and development of a family, including political and economic development. Development and change of personnel. It is a record of a family's blood relationship and the basis for proving a family's blood relationship. Only genealogy can prove the consanguinity of a family member, find the consanguinity, and know the consanguinity to prevent consanguineous marriage, which plays an important role and benefits in improving people's quality and health.

(2) "Genealogy" is a traditional culture.

Genealogy is an important part of a family's culture, and only genealogy can reflect a family's culture and people's thoughts. Genealogy culture has a history of more than 3000 years in China. Shen Lao said that genealogy is an integral part of China's traditional culture, and the loss of genealogy will cause great losses to the culture.

(3) Genealogy is the simplest and best way to commemorate ancestors, respect their predecessors, respect their elders, unite their families and sacrifice their ancestors. Genealogy symbolizes the unity of a family, which is convenient for communication, exchange and mutual exchanges. It can be inherited and passed on, and has far-reaching historical significance.

(4) Genealogy is the largest, best and most complete personnel file of a family. You can find someone to help people find information.

(5) The greatest use of genealogy is to maintain the integrity and long-term existence of a family.

In the long run, without genealogy, there will be no permanent existence of a family. Some people say that families without genealogy will still exist, and families will always exist. It doesn't have to be like this. There is no one in a family, and no one inherits this genealogy, so this family does not exist. This is a ... Have a family. Where can you find your family members? What makes you say it belongs to your family? The same surname does not mean a family, because there are too many families with the same surname. Family tree proves the family just like the blood relationship of a family member. Without family tree, there is no family.

The past historical events in the world are recorded in words, and China's long history and culture of more than 5,000 years provide people with recognition.

Knowing the world, understanding the world, transforming the world, creating the world and perfecting the world are the fundamental tasks of mankind. The world is beautiful and colorful, so is human life. Genealogy is a colorful chapter in a family's human life. Only in this way can we love your family tree.

Second, how to overcome the difficulties encountered in spectrum continuation.

I encountered five difficulties in the continuation of the spectrum.

(1) Too many people don't know and too few people know.

My family tree was established in the first half of the Qing Dynasty. It has a history of more than 300 years, and now it has twelve generations. The first six generations were all old genealogies, which were also burned during the Cultural Revolution. This is a caring brother. At that time, he secretly copied the names of his ancestors with a pen and preserved them. After the "Cultural Revolution", I don't know, I got in touch.

My grandfather Yang Xiqing is the seventh generation of Yang family, born in 1870. In the same year, he fled Dayangjiazhuang, Ningjing County, Hejianfu, Hebei Province (now hejian city) with his parents and three uncles, and settled in Xibazitun, Chaoyangpo Town, Huaide County, Jilin Province to farm. By 1930, four fathers of the sixth generation died one after another, and the family was divided into four major shares. My grandfather was the first housekeeper and had two younger brothers. Gu Si is also the eldest, with seven cousins, * * * has 10 brothers, 10 sisters-in-law,10 cousins, and the seventh generation * * has 3 1 cousins. I continued my family tree from the seventh generation, starting with 1990. More than 60 years have passed since the last genealogy. When I started the investigation, all the seventh generation had died. There are 69 people in the eighth generation. At the time of investigation, only 65,438+05 people were alive. Some people even forgot their parents' names, and few people knew them during the investigation, which was very difficult.

(2) Large area and long route

There are Huaide County, Gongzhuling, Chaoyangpo, Qingshuigouzi, Yuchuan, Bajiazi and Changchun in the northeast of Jilin Province. There are Jiamusi and Heihe in Heilongjiang Province. Shenyang, Dalian, Zhengzhou, Shanghai, Hebei, Beijing, Baotou, Inner Mongolia.

(3) The investigation needs time, manpower, material resources and funds, and no one pays for it.

(4) If there is resistance, some people object, some people disapprove, some people support, some people support and some people cooperate.

(5) can't write, haven't written, and don't know how to write.

In addition to the five difficulties, there are interference, irony and irony. If someone says that they are just full and have nothing to do. Others say it's for fame, vanity and so on.

For the above difficulties, our approach is:

Set firm goals and stick to them in the face of difficulties. Irony can be said at will, and it needs funds to pay the bill. I believe it is true that most people continue to form genealogies.

Third, we should not lose the old tradition of continuing genealogy, but also reform and innovate, so as to be welcomed by people.

My family has a long history, and it is a glorious tradition of the whole family to be diligent in housekeeping, loyal and kind, rich and thrifty, poetry and songs, diligent in housekeeping and friendly to each other.

(A) broke through the three major provisions of the old ethics and set up a new concept. My family had three rules of not keeping genealogy during the feudal old ethical code. 1, the living can't be on the genealogy. 2. A woman born at home can't be on the family tree. 3. Married aunt's breasts can't be on the family tree.

The newly updated genealogy breaks these three rules.

There is no harm in the pedigree of the living. The inequality is that only the born man is on the genealogy, and the married woman is on the genealogy, because the blood relationship cannot be changed. Today's society is a society of equality between men and women, and equality between men and women should also be reflected in genealogy, which is also necessary for the unity of the whole family, which is necessary for the study of family history. It has no influence on married men and society.

(2) Only by continuing the genealogy and establishing a long-term mechanism can we ensure the effectiveness and permanence of the genealogy.

Practice is to realize four decisions:

1, fixed point.

Is to set a designated place. It is best to choose a place with a large number of people in the center and a relatively concentrated population, and a successor, who has lived for a long time and has little change, convenient transportation and convenient communication. Fixed-point long-term general manager.

2, one person.

In order to prevent the problem of no one asking, no one managing and no one grasping, we need to look at this person according to the long-term situation in the past.

This is also absolutely necessary. Although the designated person is not safe, it is better than the uncertain person. People are the first element. To appoint a person is to make it clear that someone is responsible. According to the number and size of family shares, each share has at least one person, and two people with large shares and large population have no more than three people at most. Personnel shall be selected by each unit and borne by volunteers.

3. Set the task.

1) The person in charge of the continuation spectrum should be clear about his obligations, and usually remember the time and name of the wedding, funeral and wedding, and the newborn baby. Typical people, typical things, good deeds, such as courageous people, should be remembered, and it is not difficult to remember good deeds commended by society.

There are ready-made materials when you use them, so you don't need to investigate, so the people and things you remember are real and interesting.

2) To prevent newborn babies from having the same name.

On the issue of renaming, it is impossible for a country not to rename now. As a family, we can not call each other by the same name now. Duplicate names have always existed in history, which is an old and difficult problem to solve. Our practice is to contact the continuing genealogy department before naming the newborn. How many newborn babies are there now, and what are their names? When we know, we will name the newborn baby, so that there will be no duplicate names. Today is the information age. In urban and rural areas, almost every family has a telephone. Calling is fast, time-saving and labor-saving, and it can be solved without walking. Everything depends on people.

A family of several hundred people, two generations in a generation have different names (referring to men), which is a great achievement, indicating that this family is connected, connected and United, otherwise it can't be done.

4. Set a time.

The spectrum is updated every 10 year and every 50 years. The next spectrum update is scheduled for 2065438+2007 65438+ 10 and February, and will be completed two months later. The person in charge of each share update should be completed in June 20 17, and the information received from June 2006 to the end of June 20 16 should be written into a remittance slip and mailed or sent to the designated place. In February, the person in charge of the designated office will summarize the statements mailed to each share and then return them to each share. In this way, each copy can get twice the result with half the effort, and multiple copies can be obtained by mailing one document, and each copy can continue its own spectrum without further investigation.

(3) Establish rules and regulations

No rules, no rules, no Fiona Fang, no rules. Rules and regulations regulate people's correct behavior, guide people to the right path, and ensure and realize what they want to do. It is a reference for most people and mandatory for a few people.

Our rules and regulations are

1, the person in charge of the continuation of each share must take responsibility and complete the tasks undertaken by the share on time. We must not be careless, we must be responsible for our ancestors, our descendants, our families, our descendants and the failure of the task.

2, the rights of the person in charge of each unit, have the right to represent, have the right to participate, have the right to put forward opinions and suggestions, have the right to propose genealogy modification and revision, but it must be approved by the majority.

3. The person in charge of the continuation of each share cannot be absent without reason. Because of personal affairs, you must find someone to replace yourself. You can't be empty, you can't be left unattended, you must complete the task.

4, we must ensure the time, after the time is determined, no one can change the time at will, and whoever disrupts the time will be responsible.

5. You shall bear the postage for each statement of remittance to the designated postal service.

6. The spectrum continuation scheme shall be sent to each person in charge of spectrum continuation. We should publicize others and let everyone know.