Confucius Genealogy Compilation Committee

The Confucius Genealogy Compilation Committee (孔子世家谱续修工作协会) is responsible for collecting, collating and publishing the 2,500 years worth of genealogical data associated with Confucius. The fifth edition of the Confucius genealogy was printed in September 2009. The collecting and collating the fifth edition started in 1998, when Kong Deyong, a 77th-generation descendant established the committee in Hong Kong. The last major publication of the Confucius genealogy was in 1930.