Archive of East German genealogists
| Archive of East German genealogists
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| description | ongoing compilation / trade journal |
| Area of Expertise | Genealogy , history |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Working Group of East German Family Researchers ( Germany ) |
| First edition | 1952 |
| Frequency of publication | yearly |
| Sold edition | 1200 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Peter Bahl |
| editor | Working group of East German family researchers |
| Web link | www.agoff.de/?p=65 |
| ISSN |
0003-9470 |
The archive of East German family researchers (often cited in the abbreviated form AOFF ) is, similar to the German Gender Book, a compilation that appears in annual volumes in which master lists , ancestral tables , chance finds and source editions are printed with a geographical reference to the historical German settlement areas in the east and south-east of Europe . It has been published by the Working Group of East German Family Researchers (AGoFF) since 1952 .
Curt Liebich - the initiator of AGoFF after the Second World War - founded Neujahr 1952, the magazine initially appearing in thin booklets, which was supposed to collect "the many small handwritten notes" (from his preface) and keep them in print for posterity. The space-saving system Liebich developed by him for printing lists and tables remained in use for many decades. In 1964 he handed over the editing to Hans P. Jansen (until 1990). Under his leadership, the publication of six to eight issues per year stabilized, of which mostly three were combined into volumes and provided with a printed person and place index. After the editorial team changed frequently in the following years (Heike and Rolf Brachwitz, Oswald Frötschl, Norbert Bohrmann), Peter Bahl became familiar with the position in 2002. He converted the magazine with volume 18 (2010) to annual volumes and opened it up for alternative methods of presenting the complex family lists and pedigree tables.
register
The AOFF table of contents as well as full name and place registers since volume 1 (1952) are available on the website of the publishing association. A printed table of contents, which only deals with volumes 1 and 2 (1952–1963), appeared in 1965 in the index work Der Schlüssel (volume 5).
literature
- Wolfgang Ollrog: The key. Complete tables of contents with location sources for genealogical, heraldic and historical journal series , Volume 5, Göttingen 1965, pp. 1513–1520 (Table of Contents Vol. 1 + 2).