Ancestral index of the German people

The ancestral index of the German people (ASTAKA) is an index of historical persons and their ancestry archived in Leipzig at the Central Office for German Personal and Family History in Leipzig since 1967 . It comprises around 1.1 million index cards with 1.4 million people.

history

In 1923 the Deutsche Anhnengemeinschaft e. V. founded. It took up the work of the genealogist Karl Förster, begun two years earlier, and pursued the goal of mapping the contents of ancestral lists extensively.

In the time of National Socialism , the card index was brought to the Reich Office for Family Research , as there were considerations to use it for the creation of so-called Aryan records. However, this was discarded as the majority of the data in the card index concerned the time before 1750. She was brought back to Saxony.

From the 1950s onwards, the card index was looked after by Kurt Wensch in Dresden as the "Göttingen ancestral database" and thus belonged to the area of the "German Working Group on Genealogical Associations". In conjunction with an entire ancestral list circulation organized from Leipzig in 1967 (see article Ahnenlistensammlung ), the ancestral index - in contrast to the individual index - should now record master lines that are linked to one another by specifying the persons in law.

today

The " Ancestral Index of the German People" is now part of the " Ancestral List Collection " at the Central Office for German Personal and Family History in Leipzig. It comprises around 1.1 million index cards with 1.4 million people. The spatial focus of the data is around 40 percent in central Germany , with the greatest content density between 1600 and 1800. The card index is sorted by family name using the phonetic alphabet and, within the names, by place of origin.

literature

Thomas Kent Edlund: The genealogical records of the German people: an introduction and register . St. Paul, Minnesota: Germanic Genealogy Society 1995, ISBN 0-9644337-2-9 .

Web links

The Federation of East European Family History Societies: The ancestors master file of the German people (Engl.)

Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, Staatsarchiv Leipzig, Ref. 33 German Central Agency for Genealogy / special collections : Holdings 21941 Deutsche Ahnengemeinschaft e. V., ancestral index of the German people (ASTAKA)

Individual evidence

^ The association "German ancestral community" 1921-1967. In: Volkmar Weiss: Prehistory and consequences of the Aryan ancestral pass: On the history of genealogy in the 20th century. Neustadt an der Orla: Arnshaugk, 2013, pp. 90–127, ISBN 978-3-944064-11-6 .
^ Karl Förster as the motor of the ancestral lists circulation . In: Volkmar Weiss : Prehistory and consequences of the Aryan ancestral pass: On the history of genealogy in the 20th century. Neustadt an der Orla: Arnshaugk, 2013, pp. 91-100, ISBN 978-3-944064-11-6 .

[1] The association "German ancestral community" 1921-1967. In: Volkmar Weiss: Prehistory and consequences of the Aryan ancestral pass: On the history of genealogy in the 20th century. Neustadt an der Orla: Arnshaugk, 2013, pp. 90–127, ISBN 978-3-944064-11-6 .

[2] Karl Förster as the motor of the ancestral lists circulation . In: Volkmar Weiss : Prehistory and consequences of the Aryan ancestral pass: On the history of genealogy in the 20th century. Neustadt an der Orla: Arnshaugk, 2013, pp. 91-100, ISBN 978-3-944064-11-6 .