The Falkner Stammbücher corpus comprises four genealogical books belonging to the Falkner family, a well-connected member of the elite in the city of Basel during the early modern period. The books include miniature paintings of family members, most often arranged in groups of husband and wife with their respective children with descriptions around the images. The first book of 1574 plus 1598, 1690 and 1741 are addressed in this project, but they were produced well into the 19th century. Consequently they consist of layers, with influences from many different writers and painters while incorporating repetitive imagery and language.

Part of the master thesis of Anna Reimann under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Susanna Burghartz in 2016/7, the project was concerned with questions of family identity and memory, family representation and conception - but due to the special qualities of the sources it was also interested in materiality and fashion. The research workflow is based on a freizo digital collection containing around 700 high resolution page impressions and uses the Mirador research instrument for creation of annotations of the principal images and all of the texts and transcriptions. This permits analysis of the small but significant changes within and between the books over the course of nearly four hundred years, as well as contributing to a better understanding of the logic of genealogies constructing family history. This Invenio corpus, which makes the annotations as well as the manuscript pages searchable, was generated from the freizo collection in 2018.