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Start Your Research For German Ancestors With genealogy.net
Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. Computer Genealogy Society (Germany)
the largest genealogical society in Germany
more than 3.600 Members
own magazine (quarterly)
large online database
open access
the host of genealogy.net
visit us at table 81 & 90
www.compgen.de - www.genealogy.net
Introduction
Timo Kracke
I’am a hobby genealogist with about 18 years of experience in
genealogy. I volunteer for several German societies and I’am a board member for Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. and Oldenburgische Gesellschaft für Familienkunde e.V..
Since 2012 I’am the voice of the German Podcast "der
Genealoge" and in 2014 I started the Kids-Genealogy project "die Familienforscher" where we publish guides and ideas about involving Kids in Genealogy for the field of Kindergarten,
School, Societies and give tips for literature and excursions.
I’am a tech guy and I’am available in several social networks and love to share my knowledge with the community.
Introduction
Who are we?
Did you know our website?
start at genealogy.net
genealogy.net - the German genealogical server
User-contributed GEDCOM files online (GEDBAS)
Publish your family tree online on our GEDBAS database. All entries are automatically included in our metasearch and will be fully indexed by Google. Everyone will have access to these online pedigrees and could easily gain access to the tree owner.
• 15.405.000 People • 5.729.000 Families • 11.710 Files
Status: March 2016
gedbas.genealogy.net
User-contributed GEDCOM files online (GEDBAS)
gedbas.genealogy.net
Local Heritage Books (OFB)
• 575 Local Heritage Books • 7.278.000 Entries
Status: March 2016
Local Heritage Books are treasure troves for researcher. They are the genealogy of a complete parish. As usual for one-place-studies they grow of the church records and contain information from several secondary sources as well.
ofb.genealogy.net
Local Heritage Books (OFB)
ofb.genealogy.net
Local Heritage Books (OFB)
Crowdsourcing indexing (DES)
DES describes the German word Daten-Eingabe-System, which is an complete online indexing tool. With a free genealogy.net-account you have the possibility to work with a team of researchers on different sources, index them and release the result immediately as an open access database to the community.
• 12.000.000 Indexed entries • 8.5 Million Casualty list entries
indexed within 32 month
Status: March 2016
des.genealogy.net
des.genealogy.net
Crowdsourcing indexing (DES)
des.genealogy.net
Crowdsourcing indexing (DES)
Collaboration with archives and societies
If you have interesting sources and would like to participate in our crowdsourcing technology, feel free to contact us. We would like to collaborate with societies, archives and other partners in the field of genealogy.
des.genealogy.net
Email [email protected] Web des.genealogy.net
Historic city directories (Adressbücher)
Historic city directories cannot be compared with todays phone books. A city directory from the late 19th century covers much more than names and phone numbers. Find the street where your ancestors lived, their occupation or family status.
• 4.234.734 Entries • 455 Books • 9.250 Places
Status: March 2016
adressbuecher.genealogy.net
Historic city directories (Adressbücher)
adressbuecher.genealogy.net
Historic city directories (Adressbücher)
Genealogical Wiki (GenWiki)
We all know the huge Wikipedia. With our GenWiki did you have a resource dedicated to genealogy. You will find information about places, occupations, cause of death and everything else you might stumble over in your research. GenWiki is also free to contributions from everyone.
• 495.000 Pages • 10.100 Users
Status: March 2016
genwiki.genealogy.net
Tombstone project (Grabsteine)
Graves will be cleared after a certain period of use. That means that you won’t find many old graves like in the US. With our Grabstein project we do preserve the grave culture and the individual information of the tombstone.
• 3.108 Cemeteries • 877.000 Graves • 1.644.000 Individuals
Status: March 2016
grabsteine.genealogy.net
Tombstone project (Grabsteine)
grabsteine.genealogy.net
Newspaper personal announcements (Familienanzeigen)
• 3.709.000 Entries
Status: March 2016
In the newspaper personal announcements you’ll find transcribed information about person’s birth, marriage or death. Mostly you’ll also find additional information about the family releationsship. Furthermore we do have a large collection of in-memory-cards.
familienanzeigen.genealogy.net
Metasearch
Search in several databases at once!
With the metasearch you start your research at one point and reach out to many of our databases at a glance.
With the free metasearch alerts you’ll receive new search results automatically by email.
meta.genealogy.net
Historical geo information system (GOV)
• more than 1.000.000 places
Status: March 2016
If you research in Germany it is essential to have a profund knowledge of the historical geo information. With our GOV you’ll find place information like coordinates, properties, former names and affiliations.
gov.genealogy.net
Historical geo information system (GOV)
gov.genealogy.net
Historical geo information system (GOV)
gov.genealogy.net
Place identification // Maps (OpenStreetMap)
The village Schönberg, near Kiel in Germany.
The village Schönberg
A village is the place itself.
OpenStreetMap (CC by-sa)
The village Schönberg, near Kiel in Germany.
The commune Schönberg
A commune is the judicial
type of a village and could
extend to several surrounding
villages.
Place identification // Maps (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap (CC by-sa)
The village Schönberg, near Kiel in Germany.
The parish Schönberg
A parish is an ecclesiastic
administrative unit. It includes
several surrounding villages. It
is different from the civil
administrative unit.
Place identification // Maps (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap (CC by-sa)
How complex could it be?
name variation time data changing affiliation population church sources
Examples
Hoyerswerda Wórjejce (dsb)
Hoyerswerda (deu)
Wojerecy (hsb)
http://gov.genealogy.net/item/show/
HOYRDAJO71CK
Examples // name variation
Königsberg in Preußen Regiomonti Borussorum (lat)
Königsberg in Preußen Quelle Ort 16.1 (deu)
Królewiec Quelle (pol)
Кёнигсберг (- 1946) Quelle (rus)
Karaliaučius (- 1946) Quelle lt.wikipedia.org (lit)
Kaliningradas (1946 -) Quelle lt.wikipedia.org (lit)
Kaliningrad (1946 -) (rus)
Калининград (1946 -) Quelle (rus)
http://gov.genealogy.net/item/show/
KONSSEKO04GR Joachim Müllerchen (CC by-sa)
http://gov.genealogy.net/item/show/
BREEDTJO44LO
Forum and Mailing lists
Communication with other researchers is essential to reach out to people who life, research or have greater knowledge in a particular area. With our free forums and mailing lists did you have many possibilities to get in contact! And, yes - English is welcome!
• 7450 Forum-Members • 33.448 Topics • 196.000 Comments • 120 Mailing lists
Status: March 2016
forum.genealogy.net - list.genealogy.net
Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. Computer Genealogy Society (Germany)
General contacts
Websites
Society
Projects www.compgen.de
www.genealogy.net
Timo Kracke - [email protected]
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