Kurt Aland (1979, 43) favors a type of textual criticism that he calls the local-genealogical method. He defines it as follows:
NEW TESTAMENT TEXTUAL STUDIES: The Aland’s Local-Genealogical Method
BARBARA ALAND (1937 – PRESENT [82 IN 2019]) NEW TESTAMENT TEXTUAL CRITICISM SCHOLAR
Barbara Aland, née Ehlers (born 12 April 1937 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German theologian and was a Professor of New Testament Research and Church History at Westphalian Wilhelms-University of Münster until 2002.