The study of ethnogenetic information of nomadic tribes has been significantly contributed to by S. M. Abramzon and L. P. Potapov. They substantiated the historical-cultural and source-critical significance of oral genealogical traditions in the study of the ethnic and social organization of Turkic peoples. According to their conclusion, oral historical and genealogical information is indeed the people's historical knowledge, which they termed "folk ethnogeny." The scholars revealed the role of folk ethnogeny in studying the ethnic, social, and economic-cultural life of nomads, using Turkic peoples as an example (Abramzon, Potapov, 1975, pp. 28-41).
Kyrgyz researchers, who received religious or secular education, attempted to independently study the history of their people.
Among them is Osmonaly-moldo Sydykov, who published his work based on sanjyra in 1913-1914 in the city of Ufa. The historiographical position of Osmonaly-moldo Sydykov has not been the subject of special study by historians, although there are some articles dedicated to his biography and the books he published. His work contains interesting information about the clan-tribal structure of the right wing "on kanat" and the role of manaps in the early 20th century (Sydykov, 1990). The work of the unjustly repressed historian Belek Soltonoev, "Kyzyl Kyrgyz Taryhy" (History of the Kyrgyz), published only after Kyrgyzstan gained sovereignty, is of great significance. At the beginning of his work, the historian notes that the collection of materials and the writing of this work began back in the 1890s. Despite the author's enthusiasm for the works of V. V. Bartold and N. A. Aristov, he was able to obtain new original historical and ethnographic information. His knowledge of the Russian language and familiarity with historical literature allowed him to make independent conclusions on certain issues of Kyrgyz history (Soltonoev, 1993).
S. Attokurov, in his work, considers sanjyra as a chronicle of tribes and points out the connection between historical past and genealogical tables (Attokurov, 1995). Folklorist S. Zakirov researched issues related to the origin of the Kyrgyz, the etymology of the ethnonym, the settlement of the people, and historical events of the 16th-19th centuries (Zakirov, 1996). The ethnonymy of the Kyrgyz, from a linguistic perspective, became the subject of study by O. K. Karataev (Karataev, 1994). The source-critical significance of sanjyra in revealing the problems of the ethnic-social structure of the Kyrgyz in the 16th-19th centuries and historical connections was studied by T. I. Asanov (Asanov, 1999). R. Zholdoshov widely used data from sanjyra in his publications on issues of ethnic history (Zholdoshov, 1998, pp. 123-133; ibid., 1998, pp. 50-53). In her works, researcher from Germany G. Salk draws attention to the morphology, anthropological and social nature of sanjyra, as well as their cultural roots (Salk, 1996, pp. 26-34).
Sources and historiography on the clan-tribal structure and genealogy of Tianshan Kyrgyz