AstroGen Is Ten Years Old. Here Are Ten Ways You Can Use It

The Astronomy Genealogy Project (https://astrogen.aas.org) was approved as a project of the Historical Astronomy Division at the January 2013 AAS meeting in Long Beach. Ten years later, the database contains information about some 41 000 individuals, including at least 35 000 who have earned doctorates with astronomy-related theses. Others are included because they supervised such theses. Here are some ways you can use AstroGen:

1. Compile a list of your university's astronomy graduates.

2. Find the theses based on observations made at your observatory.

3. Compare the production of astronomy-related doctorates by university.

4. Compare the production of astronomy-related doctorates by country.

5. Compare the careers of graduates of different universities.

6. Trace the growth and decline of different fields of astronomy.

7. Trace changes in the language used for writing theses.

8. See how the progeny of prize-winning astronomers fare.

9. Find academic descendants of an astronomer.

10. Find academic ancestors of an astronomer.