Dzogchen

A genealogist is a person whose principal activity is the Généalogie. In the professional genealogists, one distinguishes two categories:

the successional which seek the heirs to a person died without known family. They work either at the request of a notary, or of their own authority to seek the heirs to an estate without a claimant or not (in the case or nobody knows where are the heirs). They make sign contracts of revelation, with the help of a percentage of the succession, and are paid only with the final payment of the succession by the notary.
the family which make genealogical and/or historical research for private customers. They intervene within the framework of a contract of research and are remunerated directly by the customer.

In France

Except for some cabinets of successional Genealogy, the genealogists work into independent under the legal status of the liberal professions. They are declared with the URSSAF, cotisent with various social security offices (RAM, CIPAV) and are subjected to VAT (except for those working under the mode of the microphone-companies). They have a whole a number SIRET and a Code NAF or APE corresponding to the 930 NR.

Known Genealogists

For the most known general public is Jean-Louis Beaucarnot, man of television and radio, author of works of vulgarisation.
For those which know the medium, the " pape" genealogists amateurs is the inhabitant of Quebec Denis Beauregard, creator of many services on Internet of which the forum Usenet fr.rec.genealogy

Genealogists griots (African)

In certain ethnos groups of West Africa (Mandingues, Wolofs in particular), the genealogy is one of the specialities of the caste of Griots, beside the history of the country, of the art of public speaking and the musical practice This caste of the griots (called still transfer traditional) holds an all the more important place in the traditional African company that the writing (and thus documents written) were not widespread there - the tradition being primarily oral. Nowadays, certain Griots of the older generation after a fashion try to make live the genealogical activity, but they ridge on the indifference of the Africans of the young generations far from interested by their family origins.

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