:Association for Computer Genealogy
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The Association for Computer Genealogy ({{langx|de|Verein für Computergenealogie}}, abbreviated CompGen) is a German non-profit organization, founded in 1989 in Dortmund, Germany. Initially called the Association for the Promotion of Computer-Aided Genealogical Research, the aim of the association is to "promote scientific research in genealogical related fields". The official webpage is only in German.
As of 2022, CompGen has a global membership of over 4,200 people in cooperation with other German genealogical research organizations.
CompGen operates its own web services, including a database, forums and mailing lists. They also work with other genealogical projects such as GenWiki. Members can publish their results through the association without advertising.Database Search Link {{in lang |de}}: https://www.compgen.de/recherchieren/#datenbanken
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CompGen uses a "Historical Place Directory", a project that creates a location database, useful for family researchers, historians and sociologists.
With the data-entry-system (DES) for historical personal data, the association has created a technical basis for historical crowdsourcing projects. Users can record digitalized printed or handwritten sources into the database.Data Entry System {{in lang |de}}: https://des.genealogy.net/
After an initial recording project during the 100th anniversary of the First World War from 2014 to 2018, CompGen was able to record around 8 million personal data records from official casualty and death listings of German soldiers during the First World War (1914–1918).World War One Casualty Lists (CompGen) {{in lang |de}}: https://wiki.genealogy.net/Verlustlisten_Erster_Weltkrieg
The association is now expanding in recording historical address directories, police reports and church registers.
All data and information provided can be used online free of charge, even by non-members.
The association publishes a quarterly magazine, Computergenealogie (CG), subscription to which is included in the membership fee.
In addition, a 200-page booklet "Familienforschung (Ancestry research made easy - computer genealogy for everyone)" is published at irregular intervals.[https://www.compgen.de/der_compgen_verein/ CompGen – offen, vernetzt, geschichtsbegeistert!] In: CompGen – unser Verein. 2020. Verein für Computergenealogie e. V. (CompGen). Auf CompGen.de, retrieved 6 December 2020.
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| title = Nominative Data in Demographic Research in the East and the West
| publisher = Ural Federal University
| date = 2019
| language = en
| chapter = Troublesome Riches: GenealogicalData As Sources For Historical Demography In Germany
| chapter-url = https://elar.urfu.ru/bitstream/10995/73912/1/10.15826_B978-5-7996-2656-3.02.pdf
| doi = 10.15826/B978-5-7996-2656-3.02
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:*{{cite journal |last1=Egger |first1=Magdalena |title=Computergenealogie und Archive - Schnittstellen, Kooperationen oder Gegenpositionen? {{!}} EBSCOhost |journal=Scrinium: Zeitschrift des Verbandes Österreichischer Archivarinnen und Archivare |date=1 June 2018 |issue=72 |url=https://openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB%3Agcd%3A15%3A10913295/detailv2?sid=ebsco%3Aplink%3Ascholar&id=ebsco%3Agcd%3A132598210&crl=c&link_origin=none |access-date=17 April 2025 |publisher=Association of Austrian Archivists |issn=1012-0327}}
:*{{cite journal |last1=Naumann |first1=Kai |last2=Neuburger |first2=Andreas |title=User perspectives through cross-connections. The role of archives as part of the German digital research data infrastructure |journal=Journal of Documentation |date=3 September 2024 |volume=80 |issue=5 |pages=1106–1118 |doi=10.1108/JD-04-2022-0081}}
External links
- {{Official website|https://www.compgen.de/}}