The “Genealogy and the Sciences” international conference, which took place December 17–18, 2018, in Rehovot, Israel, was a milestone for the field of genealogy. For the first time lecturers from around the world, all respected scholars in their own fields, from a wide range of disciplines, gathered in a respected academic setting to exchange their thoughts and views about genealogy, a field usually considered as a simple hobby like stamp collecting. Well, stamp collecting it was not, quite far from it. 

There were representatives from the hard (“exact”) sciences sitting side-by-side with scholars from the social sciences, the arts and the humanities. What a mixed audience it was; mathematicians, biologists, engineers, physicists, chemists, forensic experts and medical doctors on the one hand, anthropologists, geography experts and historians, psychologists, archeologists and onomastics experts on the other. 

The book presents the individual lectures given at the symposium,

8.5 x 11" 142 pp. softcover $19.00