During the nineties of the last century, historians and computer scientists created together a
research agenda around the life cycle of historical information. It comprised the tasks of …

An explosion of new data sources describing historical family composition is opening
unprecedented opportunities for discovery and analysis. The new data will allow …

The aim of this doctoral thesis is to contribute to the debate on the importance of diet and
disease in explaining the mortality decline and the general literature of the long-term effects …

In the past, parents' sex preferences for their children have proved difficult to verify. This
study used John Knodel's German village genealogies of couples married between 1815 …

An examination of emerging forms of knowledge creation using Web-based technologies,
analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective. Today we are witnessing dramatic changes …

This paper explores the long-term effects of being born with the assistance of a qualified
midwife on health and skills, using longitudinal register-based data for individuals born in …

Using micro-level longitudinal data from Southern Sweden for 1813 to 1968, this work
evaluates the effect of exposure to disease in early life on mortality over the entire life course …

The Programme de recherche en démographie historique (Historical Demography
Research Programme)(PRDH), founded in 1966 and based at the Département de …

This note describes the origin, the history, structure and characteristics of a recently
constructed Flemish (the Northern, Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) historical-demographic …

Abstract The Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) is a standard data format that has been
adopted by several large longitudinal databases on historical populations. Since the …