Leipzig historical family data

Overview

Project duration: 2019 - 2030 Date coverage: 1600 - 1920 Website Contact

Consolidation of family data from Leipzig is currently organized under the patronage of the Leipzig City Archives by a team of computer scientists, historians and genealogists.

Project partners

Lead partners

Verein für Computergenealogie e. V. (CompGen)

Associated partners

Sächsisches Staatsarchiv (Saxon State Archives)

Other partners

Stadtarchiv Leipzig
Altes Leipzig
Institut für Geschichte, Universität Halle

With financial support by

The group Altes Leipzig is a private initiative organized by Torsten Wehlmann since 2010. The group assembles 3D data - documented in a parallel project - as well as family data mainly from printed sources (e.g. 19th century journals).

Family data from handwritten sources (parish registers) has been assembled and joined by Helga Moritz, a former employee of the State Archives, in her private time since the 1950s. The State Archives and CompGen have digitized this material in a joint crowdsourcing project since 2017.