闽南族谱资料价值得失论

闽南族谱资料的重要价值：（1）补充正史和地方志之不足；（2）校勘史籍之误差；（3）解决历史之悬案，族谱资料的误差是由以下原因所造成：（1）由于战乱，谱牒散失，造成失误；（2）人们攀附历史人的心态致成差错；（3）地理因素制约造成失误。

On Merits and Demerits of the Value of Data from Pedigree of a Clan is South Fujian

The important value of data from pedigree of a clan in South Fujian can be concluded as follows:a) to make up the deficiency in the history books wirtten in biographical style and the local chronicles ;b) to collate the errors in historical records;and c) to settle the unsettled questions in history.The errors in data from pedigree of a clan were caused by the following causes:a) owing to chaos in war,family genealogical tree scattered and disappeared that led to fault;b) to seek connections with grea tname in history as the public mentality that led to mistake;c) the restriction of geographical factors,that led to fault.