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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)

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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)

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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 des@genealogy.net 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

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