ABSTRACT
This chapter explains some of the patterns and strategies that hereditary astronomer families exhibited during their long careers at the Astronomical Bureau. It describes how members of the same families often clustered in one section of the Astronomical Bureau until they overcrowded that section and new members had to be reallocated to a different section. It then investigates the personal concerns and family interests that motivated some officials to choose to remain in the Astronomical Bureau as opposed to accepting higher positions in different government institutions. This chapter ends by describing some symptomatic features that declining astronomer families often exhibited.
