Practice question · Put in order
Put the steps of family reconstitution in order.
- Derive ages at marriage, birth intervals, and mortality
- Aggregate parishes into national population estimates
- Transcribe baptism, marriage, and burial registers
- Link records referring to the same individuals
- Assemble linked individuals into families
Hints
- Records must be transcribed before they can be linked.
- The measurements emerge only after individuals are reconnected.
Show the answer
- Transcribe baptism, marriage, and burial registers
- Link records referring to the same individuals
- Assemble linked individuals into families
- Derive ages at marriage, birth intervals, and mortality
- Aggregate parishes into national population estimates
Why
Thousands of hand-linked records per parish to recover measurements no source ever recorded. Brutal, and it reversed a central assumption about how European populations worked.
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