Prosopography
I guess I can't say this is a new hobby, exactly, but it's some fascinating reading.From Wikipedia:
In historical studies, prosopography is an investigation of the common characteristics of a historical group, whose individual biographies may be largely untraceable, by means of a collective study of their lives, in multiple career-line analysis. Prosopographical research has the aim of learning about patterns of relationships and activities through the study of collective biography, and proceeds by collecting and analysing statistically relevant quantities of biographical data about a well-defined group of individuals. This makes it a valuable technique for studying many pre-modern societies.
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
Oxford University's Introduction to Prosopography
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