Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each measurement: recorded directly by parish registers, or recovered only by reconstitution?
Groups: Recorded directly · Recovered by reconstitution
- A woman’s age at first marriage
- The names of a marrying couple
- The date of a baptism
- The interval between a couple’s births
- The date of a burial
- Completed family size and infant mortality
Hints
- One column is what a priest actually wrote down.
- The other emerges only by linking records together.
Show the answer
Recorded directly: The date of a baptism, The date of a burial, The names of a marrying couple
Recovered by reconstitution: A woman’s age at first marriage, The interval between a couple’s births, Completed family size and infant mortality
Why
The left column is what a priest wrote. The right column is what emerges only when you link the columns back together, data nobody collected, extracted from records nobody kept for the purpose.
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