Martin Tompa is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science & Engineering and was also an Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences, both at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is passionate about uncovering his family's stories and about genealogy. He has published articles on his family history in JewishGen Success Stories and in Writing Family Histories. Martin is an administrator of the Austrian Genealogy Group and the Czech Bohemian Genealogy Group and is active in several other genealogy groups.