ABSTRACT This article analyzes the sources known in the art under the name "Kazak shezhire" genealogy. In the article the experience of studying the formation shezhire traditions, forms of their existence, value, features and analysis of their content and interpretation of the data Source study. Spiritual value of oral history of knowledge, which shezhire, was the fact that it allows each individual to realize himself the real part of the social organization, part of the ethnic group. Keywords: folklore, genealogy, Source study interpretation, ethnography