Genealogy as a tool for studying the history of culture and the culture of everyday life

The development of the problematic field of individual cultural memory is today one of the most exciting in the study of the historical layer of the culture of everyday life. The attention to diaries, letters and other sources of personal origin cannot be overestimated. Of course, the genealogical search as such, as in our case, is based on such a personal source, in this case a photograph of approximately 1910. Source analysis of archival documents: revision tales, registers of births, confession lists, household and family censuses allowed not only to expand the researcher’s understanding of his own genealogy, but also to create a contextual picture of the culture of everyday life in the 18thn. XX centuries To deepen the local history chronology of the arrival of the village of Shulgino with the surrounding villages for more than 200 years. With a high degree of confidence, we can say that the search for the desired seven tribes of ancestors helps the process- es of selfidentification and, obviously, the stress resistance of a person in the modern world, the formation of a sense of belonging to the history and culture of the country as a whole. As part of the work, a lot of archival documents are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.