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Counting Souls: Towards an historical demography of Africa [PDF]
Demographic Research, 2016 Background: Little is known about even the relatively recent demographic history of Africa, because of the lack of data. Elsewhere, historical demographic trends have been reconstructed by applying family reconstitution to church records.
Sarah Walters
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Małżeństwa w parafii Łapy w latach 1919–1939
Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski, 2023 The article examines marriage in the Podlasie Catholic parish of Lapy from 1919–1939. It considers the occupations of the grooms, the age at which the couples married and the seasonality (monthly and weekly) of marriages.
Jakub Dobrzyński
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Lehahayer, 2023 (PROTO)SURNAMES OF POLISH ARMENIANS BASED ON ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH REGISTERS FROM SOUTHEASTERN BORDERLANDS (17TH-19TH CENTURIES): SELECTED ISSUES The article is based on excerpts from Roman Catholic parish registers in Brzeżany, Kołomyja, Obertyn, and ...
Łukasz Trzeciak
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Parish Registers in the Archival Fonds of the State Archives in Szczecin
Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski, 2020 The article aims to show the value that Protestant parish registers kept in the State Archives in Szczecin have for demographic research. The paper will also examine the internal structure of the Pomeranian and New Marchian parish registers, showing the ...
Radosław Gaziński
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Księgi parafialne w świetle obowiązujących przepisów
Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2016 The necessity of maintaining and storing parish registers is an important part of church administration. This article addresses a canonical aspect of such registers.
Jerzy Adamczyk
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Studia Linguistica, 2023 The paper, involving a textlinguistic analysis, attempts to identify specific features of the Polish administrative language in the entries of the parish register from Busko-Zdrój in the 19th century.
Piotr A. Owsiński
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Parish records of Orthodox churches in Toplica from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century as a historical source [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2022 Parish records are an important historical source for demographers and historians. They contain various data of importance for researchers: records of births, marriages, and deaths, then dates, names, surnames, occupations, diseases, etc.
Stanojević Saša D. +1 more
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THE USAGE AND STORAGE OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE PARISH REGISTERS
Київські історичні студії, 2019 Under the conditions of the formation of the civil society, the social significance of archival institutions is increasing. The archives perform a number of important functions to store the documentary memory of the state and society.
Olha Kryhina
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‘Instead of fetching flowers, the youths brought in flakes of snow’: exploring extreme weather history through English parish registers [PDF]
, 2017 Parish registers provide organized, dated and located population data and as such, are routinely among the most frequently consulted documents within the holdings of county record offices and archives.
Andrews W. +30 more
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Catholic Parish Registers in Kazan between the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2016 The article examines parish registers of the Kazan Catholic parish of pre-revolutionary period. Kazan was the centre of the Catholic Church for the whole territory of the Middle Volga region, the Urals and the Kama region.
Artur Górak
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