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Proceedings Interpret Europe Conference organised by Herita #iecon16 Interpret Europe www.interpreteuropeconference.net Interpret Europe Conference | 21 - 24 May 2016, Mechelen, Belgium 2 3 Building Bridges: how genealogy leads Europe towards a sustainable and peaceful future — John Boeren, An Stofferis 8 The future of festa food in Malta: lost legacy? — George Cassar, Marie Avellino, Noel Buttigieg: University of Malta – Institute for Tourism, Travel and Culture 19 Heritage Interpretation as a Means of Social Integration of Refugees in the EU — Christina Ntaltagianni and Panagiotis Dimas 31 Interpreting sexuality and celebrating difference: a more inclusive future? — Stuart Frost 39 A shared vision in Landschapspark Bulskampveld — Saskia Hornikx 45 Interpretive planning methods and processes as an effective mechanism for community building. — Anne Ketz 52 Gastronomy Map ‘Gastinia’ as a Tool for Reviving Traditional Cuisine in Belarus — Valeria Klitsounova, Belarusian Association of Rural and Ecotourism “Country Escape” 58 Platsminnen (Place Memories). Cultural Heritage as a resource and means for communication in dementia care — Viktor Lindbäck 60 Trends in policy, culture and economy and what they mean for heritage interpretation — Thorsten Ludwig, Nicole Deufel and Peter Seccombe 65 Designing Effective Interpretive Trails that Reflect Communal Values — Carl ‘Pete’ Peterson and John H. Jameson, Jr., Stephen R. Mark 67 Multiple values assessment- precondition for territorial presentation and interpretation of archeological heritage- Case study Sesvete — Ksenija Petrić, M.Sc, architect, heritage officer - conservator adviser Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Direction for Cultural Heritage Protection, Conservation Department Zagreb 76 Learning from Las Cuencas: Heritage interpretation as a source of inspiration for lifelong learning — Nacho Ruiz Allén, Arkitekskolen Aarhus 82 #Tl;Dr – combining heritage interpretation and youth work — Janja Sivec 87 Let’s PLAyTO: Designing and realising a museum of philosophy in the Athens of 2015 — Evgenia Stavraki, Aggeliki Konstantinidi and Tina Zoubou 99 How can interpretation support sustainable development? The role of a persuasive communication in attitude and behaviour change. — Ruth E Taylor 106 Luther500. Using A Game & Gamification for Cultural Awareness & Personal Development — Johan ter Beek and Lydia Vroegindeweij 111 Orgelkids! Inspire children for pipe organs — Daniel Vanden Broucke, Lydia Vroegindeweij 117 Transforming rural heritage into a learning experience: the case of a heritage learning trail. — dr. Marijke Van Eeckhaut 122 Making Sense of the Present: heritage is political – it belongs to us — Lucy Walker 131 Capturing past practice: approaches to interpreting and presenting old technologies — Roger White and Tamara West 135 Strengthening visitor studies to support European heritage interpretation — Dr. Lars Wohlers Interpret Europe Conference | 21 - 24 May 2016, Mechelen, Belgium 3 Building Bridges: how genealogy leads Europe towards a sustainable and peaceful future — John Boeren (Netherlands), An Stofferis (Belgium/France) Abstract Modern genealogists are no longer focusing on names and data; they are looking for stories about ancestors and use a wide variety of sources: documents, illustrations and objects. During their quest to find their roots or iden- tity, they develop an inner need to connect with their past. This makes them undertake an identity pilgrimage to the place or country of origin. Cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, enables them to understand the history, culture, traditions, landscapes and celebrations of this ‘other’ country. From the moment they are study- ing their family history, they will start to see people with different cultural backgrounds as distant cousins. Thys it will be easier to get along together. Genealogy might really lead us to a better future. Keywords genealogy, cultural heritage, identity, probate research, roots tourism, future, transmission, Europe Introduction Our society has recently been startled by various forms of violence, either caused by nature or by humans. We see how natural disasters bring people closer, while human violence leads to tensions in intercultural relationships. Humanitarian operations for a flooding or an earthquake place aid workers of several nationalities shoulder to shoulder in their fight against the elements of nature. However, terrorist attacks or uncontrollable refugee flows cause for concern and suspicion about everything and everybody that is seen as ‘different’. In those moments our feelings of cultural identity are threatened. The saying ‘unknown, unloved’ becomes easily true. Is the opposite also true: do we feel sympathy and respect for other cultural identities, when we know more about their backgrounds and history? How can genealogy help us with that? What role plays cultural heritage? These are the questions we want to answer in this brief paper. We want to shed a light on this case as a genealogist, not as a sociologist or a guardian of patrimony. These specialists are on our list for a talk about how genealogy can contribute to the preservation of cultural identities. Developments in genealogy Before we say something about recent developments in genealogy, we first want to explain what we think is gene- alogy. Traditionally, the word genealogy has two meanings: on one side it is the discipline of history that covers the research on ancestors or the lineage of a family name, on the other side genealogy is also a way of presenting all male descendants. We do not take into account the very specific use of the term genealogy by Friedrich Nietzsche. (Nl.wikipedia.org, 2016) In this essay we will use the word genealogy in the broadest explanation: “a research field concerned primarily with accurately constructing forgotten or unknown identities and relationships”. (Jones, 2013) Genealogists go beyond their own family history. They research and describe an extended family structure, and they pay attention to both ancestors and descendants. They use facts from written documents, oral information and heirlooms when writing family stories. This way genealogy becomes more than only the collection of names and dates, it becomes the description of family members in a geographical, historical and social context. (Morgan, 2015) This brings us to a first development in genealogy. The available sources for genealogical research are almost un- changed: sources from the 17th, 18th and 19th century are still the same. However, the outcome of our research is quite different. Nowadays we usenarrative texts when writing about one or more family members. Older ge- nealogical publications often only show per generation a husband, wife and children. More recent publications include this kind of information in (extensive) life stories, which show interest in the circumstances people lived and worked in. The 21st century genealogist includes parts of local, national or even global history in his research. Interpret Europe Conference | 21 - 24 May 2016, Mechelen, Belgium 4 He knows that his ancestors’ lives are influenced by ‘the bigger picture’. Even though a lot of sources for genealogical research are unchanged over time, thanks to the digitalisation and the internet these sources can be found and used in a far more quick and easy way. The vast majority of the cultural world – archives, libraries and museums – publishes catalogues on the internet together with images of the original documents or objects. The search for useful sources, illustrations or objects has been simplified. Genealogists are major consumers of archives: digital and online published civil records, population registers and church books are the foundation of genealogical research. Afterwards, genealogists are looking for court records, wills, deeds, build- ing permits and immigration files. With all these sources, both indexes and images, on the internet, genealogists easily know where to look for what. Research is no longer restricted to one’s own area; it can (virtually) take place in different cities, provinces and even countries. Not only the internet has strongly developed over the last twenty years, forensic scientists have taken big steps as well. The use of DNA techniques is new but very interesting for genealogy. DNA research is inevitable for those genealogists, who want to proof the family relations between the people they are writing about. Especially in the United States – where almost every genealogist encounters questions of origin – DNA research has become a new genealogical phenomenon. But even in Belgium and the Netherlands the interest in DNA is growing. Good exam- ples are the DNA project by Familiekunde Vlaanderen (Familiekunde-vlaanderen.be, 2016) and the one by Leuven University, called ‘de Gen-iale Stamboom’ (the Gen-ious Family Tree) ((Bio.kuleuven.be, 2016). The popularity of genealogy has increased enormously. This started already thirty years ago. In the last five to ten years, a growing number of television shows focuses on ancestors of famous or less famous persons. Each season of the Dutch television show ‘Verborgen Verleden’ (Hidden Past) has high audience figures. Belgian viewers saw last year a new children’s program, called ‘Ben ik familie van?’ (Am I related to?). Famous television shows in the United Kingdom and the United States are ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, ‘Finding Your Roots’ and ‘The Genealogy Roadshow’. Today we have become a global society in which the population