Management for family research Liechtenstein – Liechtenstein
RUGGELL – Benjamin Fischer, resident in Vaduz, will be the new managing director of family research in Liechtenstein. The municipality of Ruggell announced this in a broadcast on Tuesday.
Fischer will start his new challenge with an 80 percent workload and limited to three years on October 1, 2022. He is supported by the technical assistant Sylvia Frick from Schaan with a workload of 20 percent, who, according to the broadcast, has already worked in family research for the municipalities of Vaduz and Schaan for many years and therefore has a lot of practical experience. The workplace will be in the municipality of Ruggell.
The “Liechtenstein family research” initiative is a joint project of the eight Liechtenstein communities of Balzers, Gamprin-Bendern, Mauren, Planken, Ruggell, Schaan, Schellenberg and Vaduz with the aim of bringing together genealogical research across communities in a central location. Since 2020, the “Liechtenstein Family Research” working group, headed by Ruggell’s head Maria Kaiser-Eberle, has been working on the project basis in many meetings on behalf of the conference of heads in order to start a common, cross-community platform for family research.
advance digitization
Almost all communities now have printed local family books. A common, cross-community and, above all, digital platform should now lead the important task of family research into the digital age, explains the community of Ruggell in its broadcast. The main goals of this project are then the merging and nationwide networking of the community’s own data and then the online publication of family trees. This should not only benefit users, but also family research and historical science in general.
Data security and data protection play a central role in this project and are guaranteed by appropriate IT measures and well-founded coordination with the responsible authorities, the community continues. The new management is now taking over this demanding project, technically and organizationally between the municipalities, ensures the coordinated quality as well as the IT and data protection requirements and represents the project in public. The previous working group will remain in place and will continue to support the project and the new management.