Historical records of daily activities provide intriguing insights into the life of our ancestors, useful for demography studies and genealogical research. Automatic processing of historical ...documents, however, has mostly been focused on single works of literature and less on social records, which tend to have a distinct layout, structure, and vocabulary. Such information is usually collected by expert demographers that devote a lot of time to manually transcribe them. This paper presents a new database, compiled from a marriage license books collection, to support research in automatic handwriting recognition for historical documents containing social records. Marriage license books are documents that were used for centuries by ecclesiastical institutions to register marriage licenses. Books from this collection are handwritten and span nearly half a millennium until the beginning of the 20th century. In addition, a study is presented about the capability of state-of-the-art handwritten text recognition systems, when applied to the presented database. Baseline results are reported for reference in future studies.
► A freely available historic handwritten text database is presented. ► The palaeographic transcription and the layout analysis information are given. ► We provide baseline results for state-of-the-art recognition approaches. ► Considering the difficulties of the database the obtained results are encouraging.
Municipal register books, inventories, and church registers are among the key historical anthroponymic sources of Lithuanian townspeople. The most notableamong these sources are 24 register books of ...Kėdainiai written intheLatin and Polish languages. Thedata of research are148recordings of Kėdainiai women.Thearticle aims to establish and comparethe naming system (of women) used in Kėdainiai of the 17th–18th centuries, underlining more characteristic Polonisationevents of their personal names.The Polonisation of Lithuanian anthroponyms are among the main factors affecting their records.The followingmajor research methods are used to discuss the data ofhistorical anthroponymy: descriptive, reconstructive and comparative. In the 17th century, women were mostly recorded using four anthroponyms, and in the 18th century, only two personal names (i.e., a first name and a surname or replacing the latter with an anthroponym ) were used. Traditional Christian names were predominant among the studied recordings.
Članak donosi povijesni pregled katoličke župe Dubrave u Hercegovini, od njezina osnutka 1704. godine, te doseljavanja katolika na to područje i njihovo brojčano stanje. Dat je i povijesni pregled ...izdvajanja novih župa iz župe Dubrave, čime se stalno smanjivao njezin teritorijalni opseg. Glavni dio rada govori općenito o važnosti matičnih knjiga, zatim o maticama prvih župa Trebinjsko-mrkanske biskupije s posebnim naglaskom na matice župe Dubrave i njihovu sudbinu. Posebice je fokus istraživanja usmjeren na sudbinu matica te župe iz 19. i 20. stoljeća koje su izgorjele 1985. i 1992. godine, čijim je uništenjem nepovratno nestala rijetko zapisana povijest velikoga dijela jugoistočne Hercegovine.
This article postulates revising the previous arrangements for demographic change in modern Gdańsk, which were devised nearly 30 years ago by the Gdańsk researcher Jan Baszanowski, who died ...prematurely in 1989, and which appeared in a posthumously-published monograph. Baszanowski’s calculations, based only on tables of vital statistics drawn up by municipal agencies, should be compared with entries in the registers (relatively wellpreserved for the modern period) from Gdańsk parishes (both Protestant and Catholic). Analysis of the registers will also provide new data. Without questioning the general statistical trends outlined in Baszanowski’s findings, it is absolutely imperative to return to research on the demography of Gdańsk and other cities in Royal Prussia.
U članku je predstavljena jedina vinjeračka bratovština sv. Antuna Padovanskog za koju je djelomično sačuvana madrikula. Postoji nekoliko dokumenata vezanih uz rad ove bratovštine te knjižica pravila ...iz 1904. Za župu Vinjerac sačuvano je nekoliko tiskanih glagoljskih misala i brevijara zajedno s glagoljskim zapisima na njihovim praznim stranicama. Narativno pisane (latiničke i glagoljske) matične knjige, knjige godova, knjige krizmanih i knjige izgovorenih misa koje se spominju u izvještajima s biskupskih vizitacija su nestale. Ostalo je nekoliko zapisa krštenja, krizmi, patrimonija te veći broj dozvola za sklapanje braka koji se čuvaju u fondu Ninske biskupije. Na temelju ovih rukopisa istražen je svakodnevni život Vinjerca od kraja 17. do početka 19. stoljeća.
The article focuses on the influx of population in cities on the basis of ecclesiastical marriage registry books. This historical source can be of help when researching pre-modern migrations, where ...appropriate population and marriage statistics is missing. It has proven useful especially for the 18th century, sometimes in combination with other sources concerning marriage, such as celibacy statements of the newly wed or the notarial marriage contracts, as well as death registry books. Marriage registry books contain data on the regional provenance of the newly wed, as well as a series of social-demographic, professional, and other data that can serve as a basis to distinguish between the newcomers and the native population, as well as to assess the dynamics, consistency, structural features, and certain other cultural and behavioural patterns of the foreign population in a long-term perspective. Marriage data cannot be used in order to calculate accurately the range of migration or to draw detailed conclusions on all its characteristics. However, in absence of other documentation, it is a type of source that can be used, despite its insufficiencies, to extract a series of useful indications for evaluating the importance of migrations, their geographic and structural constants, and their change over time. The article presents the characteristic of the source, the possibilities and methodological aspects of its use, as well as the limits of data reliability and questions related to their interpretation. These issues have been shown in detail on the example of Trieste in the 18th century, when the city went trough a period of fast demographic growth and profound social change owing to a massive influx of population from its ethnically and culturally different hinterland. In this case, the source has proven useful, especially when presenting the centuries-long dynamics of immigration, the geographic origin, and the gender structure of the newcomers, as well as the formation of urban social reality, including the mixing of various foreign components and the local population, evident from an analysis of endogamy and exogamy.
U radu se analizira model istraživanja procesa formacije moderne društvene strukture na temelju matičnih knjiga. Pri tome se polazi od teze da tijekom procesa modernizacije dolazi do transformacije ...tradicionalne društvene strukture u modernu. Ovaj proces odrazio se prvenstveno na sustav društvene stratifikacije, a kao njegov glavni indikator promatraju se promjene u profesionalnoj strukturi stanovništva, koje se analiziraju istraživanjem vertikalne međugeneracijske mobilnosti. Teorijski model ispitan je u drugome dijelu rada na primjeru matičnih knjiga vjenčanih iz Makarske u razdoblju od 1900. do 1910. godine. Na temelju toga druga polovina 19. stoljeća sugerirana je kao razdoblje početka procesa formacije moderne društvene strukture na hrvatskim prostorima.
Na zadarskome području sačuvan je velik broj glagoljskih matičnih knjiga od 1565. do 1825. godine. U članku su obrađene zapreke za sklapanje braka u matičnim knjigama vjenčanih, ali i u ostalim ...matičnim knjigama koje sadrže podatke o vjenčanjima te u pratećoj dokumentaciji potrebnoj za sam čin i upis vjenčanja, koja je ostajala u župnim arhivima. Tako se dozvole za sklapanje braka daju u sljedećim slučajevima: rodbinski odnos odnosno krvno srodstvo, duhovno srodstvo i srodstvo po tazbini, zakonsko srodstvo, zajednički život prije braka, sklapanje braka udovca ili udovice, sklapanje braka različitih vjeroispovjesti, sklapanje braka maloljetne osobe, sklapanje braka osobe iz druge biskupije, oslobođenje od tri napovidi te dozvola da se mladenci mogu vjenčati u župi ženika. U članku se analizira učestalost zapreka za sklapanje braka u raznim dijelovima zadarskoga područja: otocima, priobalju i zadarskome zaleđu.
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