It provides vast reserves of other paintings, engravings and even photographs of such people, and it provides a valuable source of information and research for historians and genealogists and archivists.
I have been a practising genealogist for many years.
These people include professional historians, students, genealogists and many others.
It was not designed to enable genealogists to work out who was descended from whom and who moved from where.
Any genealogist would tell us that the two categories of record are complementary.
That is something which is based on humanity and not on the anfractuosities of the professional genealogist.
The world was not made for genealogists but was made for people.
In putting together the history of a family a genealogist may prefer to draw on wills.