Ancestry List Collection

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An ancestral list collection is a systematic collection of ancestral lists .

Collection of ancestral lists by the Central Office for German Personal and Family History in Leipzig

history

In the 20th century, several German genealogical associations began to collect the ancestral lists of their members. From the ancestral list exchange organized by Karl Förster (1873–1931) in Dresden since 1921 by the Deutsche Anhnengemeinschaft e. V. created the largest collection of ancestors lists in the German-speaking area. It was also expanded and supplemented after 1945 - mainly by Kurt Wensch until 1967 - and until today.

today

The ancestral list collection is located together with the ancestral index of the German people in the Central Office for German Personal and Family History in Leipzig . It currently has around 7,000 lists (with around 5,000 more lists previously lost in the war, mostly incorporated into the ancestral records). All ancestral lists are available on films that are also available for viewing at the Utah Genealogical Society in Salt Lake City . The around 950 ancestral lists of the ancestral lists of the old federal states are also available in Leipzig on films and on DVD of the ancestral lists.

The current trend is that data from ancestral lists are only saved in electronic form. However, since the durability of electronic storage over long periods of time is questionable or constant timely restoring does not always seem to be guaranteed (see also long-term archiving ), ancestral lists and other genealogical research results are still printed out in multiple copies on paper and submitted to archives and libraries.

literature

  • Ingrid Hammer: The ancestral lists collection in the German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig. In: Genealogy. Vol. 42, No. 3/4, 1993, ISSN  0016-6383 , pp. 490-498.
  • Klaus-Günter Radtke, Katja Münchow, Christian Eichhorn: German ancestral lists and their regional distribution. Complete printout for the classification and regionalization of the ancestral lists collection of the German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig (= writings of the German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig. 13, ISSN  0946-4182 ). German Central Office for Genealogy, Leipzig 1995, (also as CD-ROM from Degener Verlag, Neustadt / Aisch).