Connections are a fundamental category in global and transregional history, but tracing historical processes across and beyond bounded spaces is a challenging task. The digital turn in the field seemed to come with the promise of making this task much easier. Digital archives and infrastructure provide historians with access to a much larger quantity of documents, which opens up new possibilities for finding and connecting sources from different world regions, uncovering patterns of interaction, and making results available. Researchers have also begun to use digital methods to process, analyze, and visualize data. These different dimensions of digitization multiply our access to and understanding of the connections that form the building blocks of our historiographical narratives. Although much progress has been made, we are now also in a phase of critical reflection on the benefits and pitfalls of digital approaches. Only a minority of historians use digital tools methodologically to analyze their sources; the language inequalities have only grown bigger, as have asymmetries in digitization. While computer scientists are establishing large-scale infrastructure and setting standards, their colleagues in the humanities and social sciences, and especially in transregional or global history, must pay attention that their needs are taken into account. In parallel, global history has been criticized for an overly positive,biased view of connections. They are indeed not a given but need in-depth methodological reflection: about different forms of connectivity and their historical change, about the degrees of (dis)integration and (dis)connection, actors and structures that promote or hinder connectivity, etc. What impact do digital approaches have on these conceptual debates in the field? What kinds of connections can be uncovered using these methods and what remains out of focus? What impact does the process of data creation, handling, and analysis have on our understanding of connections, on research perspectives and outcomes? This panel aims to open a wider debate among historians regarding the implications of the digital turn on the historical understanding of connections. It receives funding from NFDI4Memory, one of the consortia that jointly manage the creation of a long-term and sustainable research data infrastructure in Germany.