The course deals with genealogy and paleography from an economic-historical perspective. Genealogy is a large international movement, which has strong links to economic-historical research. The course provides an introduction to how genealogical relationships and living conditions can be analyzed through, among other things, birth and baptism books, funeral and death books, entry and exit lengths, passenger lists, mantle lengths, house interrogation lengths, estate records, censuses and modern DNA technology. The course also introduces paleography, basic source criticism, historical demographics and how monetary units, professional titles, gender relations and units of weight can be interpreted in historical times. The course provides good conditions for further study for a degree in economic history, among other things by the student learning to handle empirical material that can be used for essay writing.