Reconstituting Wandre. An approach to semi-automatic family reconstitution

1977 ◽  
Vol 1977 (1) ◽  
pp. 315-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myron P. Gutmann
Keyword(s):  
Family Reconstitution

Family, Stability, and Respectability: Seven Generations of Africans and Afro-descendants in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Minas Gerais

2016 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas C. Libby
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family History ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Level Of Detail ◽  
Family Stability ◽  
History Of ◽  
Family Reconstitution ◽  
Seven Generations

This article focuses on the history of an Afro-descendant family over its seven generations in one region of Minas Gerais. Although it is notoriously difficult to trace families founded by slaves, this one is an exception: it has proved possible to trace this family over a century and a half, and with a remarkable level of detail, because its members mostly stayed in one place. The implications of their permanence go beyond mere genealogy or family reconstitution to challenge long-standing historiographical perspectives. Over the years many scholars have agreed that Brazilian colonial and early imperial society was characterized by the near-constant movement of all segments of the population. New frontiers opened by agriculture, ranching, and mining attracted some members of the elite, but also beckoned the less favored with new opportunities. This incessant movement has even been touted as an impediment to the advancement of family history in Brazil.

Inter-Generational Family Reconstitution with Enriched Ontologies

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
David W. Embley ◽  
Stephen W. Liddle ◽  
Deryle W. Lonsdale ◽  
Scott N. Woodfield
Keyword(s):  
Family Reconstitution

Early American Family and Legal History: New Ideas

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell R. Menard
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
American Family ◽  
Early American ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Family Reconstitution ◽  
The 1960S

Recent work about the method of family reconstitution and economic history raises serious doubts about the demographic and economic premises that underlie much of the existing scholarship about early American family history. As a result, early American family history—one of the new social history's crowning achievements during the 1960s—is now in disarray. Some scholars see the new microhistorical studies of the colonial family as an effort to sidestep these difficulties by ignoring demographic and materialist perspectives. However, such cultural approaches may well intensify the crisis by challenging the image of the early American family as a loving institution incapable of violent conflict.

The 1789 Life Table of Edward Wigglesworth

1971 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 570-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maris A. Vinovskis
Keyword(s):  
Life Table ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
Aggregate Data ◽  
Early America ◽  
Demographic Analysis ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Family Reconstitution

Systematic demographic analysis of early America has been neglected until quite recently. As the interest in and need for demographic data on pre-1800 America have increased during the last five years, efforts have been made to remedy this situation.The most recent studies are utilizing such new techniques as family reconstitution to avoid the problems created by the lack of reliable census data and vital statistics. But these techniques yield results very slowly, and in any case their results are subject to methodological limitations that make it necessary to check them against larger aggregates. For these reasons we need to reexamine the usefulness and accuracy of earlier studies on colonial population that were based on aggregate data. Unfortunately, this latter task has not been adequately carried out during the recent burst of activity among demographers of early America.

‘Monday's child is fair of face’: favoured days for baptism, marriage and burial in pre-industrial England

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROGER SCHOFIELD
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Day Of The Week ◽  
Family Reconstitution

In the past a couple had the choice of a day from Monday through Sunday on which to baptise their child, or to get married, or to have their burials registered. The day chosen would reflect the parents' own preferences for days of leisure. As each date was converted by computer during the process of family reconstitution to a number of days that had elapsed since the first of January, 1 AD, all that it was necessary to do was to divide the number corresponding to the date by 7 to get the day of the week. Three graphs reveal, with some surprises, the relative popularity of the days of the days of the week chosen for baptisms, burials and marriages, from 1542 to 1847.

ISLAND MORTALITY IN THE PAST: SOME EVIDENCE FROM GREECE

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
VASILIS S. GAVALAS
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Average ◽  
Childhood Mortality ◽  
Lower Mortality ◽  
Island Populations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Family Reconstitution ◽  
Distinct Features ◽  
Mortality Estimates ◽  
Greek Island

SummaryThis paper explores the course of infant and childhood mortality in the Greek island of Paros from the end of the nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century. For this purpose the method of family reconstitution has been applied to two towns on the island. Official population statistics have been used to derive basic mortality estimates for the Cyclades and Greece as a whole. Reference to other studies concerning island mortality is also made. Hence, there appears the chance to compare insular with mainland mortality and realise that insular mortality presented some distinct features. It is shown that island populations presented lower mortality than the national average until the first decades of the twentieth century. However, by the 1950s Greece’s infant and childhood mortality had dropped to the same or even to lower levels than those of the islands.

scholarly journals Is fecundability associated with month of birth? An analysis of 19th and early 20th century family reconstitution data from The Netherlands

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 2572-2578 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J. Smits ◽  
F. W.A. van Poppel ◽  
J. A. Verduin ◽  
P. H. Jongbloet ◽  
H. Straatman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Month Of Birth ◽  
Family Reconstitution
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