Information system "sanjyra": studying genealogic trees of Kyrgyz people.
Sanjyra is unique genealogic source of Kyrgyz people demographic history, describing its tribal structure which was transferred from generation to generation by word of mouth during lines of centuries. So Sanjyra is based on oral history. A huge set of genealogic trees extracted from Sanjyra is a valuable ethnologic source in studying spiritual culture, the social organization and ideology of a nomadic society of Kyrgyz people. Up today practically each Kyrgyz family keeps knowledge on the direct ancestors by the father in seven generations – ("Jetiata" - seven generations). The public-functional importance of this tradition is also connected to an interdiction of the closely related marriage relations which are having an adverse effect on the future descendants. It was not authorized to create family bonds to young men and girls if they had the common ancestors even in the seventh generation by fathers.
For today there is big enough number of the published and hand-written variants of sanjyra. The comparative analysis of available variants sanjyra shows, that on their basis one can probably to construct uniform genealogic tree of kyrgyz tribes from the beginning of XV century. Since the period of the head of Kyrgyz people – Tagay-bii to present time on the basis of Sanjyra anyone interested in the family history can reconstruct genealogic tree up to 24-25 generations.
ICT developments gives us opportunities to realize the retrieval information system to collect all available variants of sanjyra family lines and to provide users with convenient search tool. Our project has an aim to reconstruct genealogic tree of Kyrgyz tribes since the period associated with a name Dolon-bii, by comparison and synthesis of different variants of sanjyra with additional collected materials through interrogation of separate representatives of each region. The database genealogic tree and the information system, providing addition, processing and functioning of this database which is placed in the Internet is constructed. The directory system developed by us allows users to enter the data on genealogic tree and to receive the survey of genealogic information using Web-site: http://www.arunet.kg/ Our database can satisfy queries not only from academic users but from any interested persons as well.
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