During 31.03-2.04.2017, the HPDT team is in Poiana Brasov, at the workshop ”Furter Steps for Historical Population Database of Transylvania”, marking the end of the project. Topics to be discussed: -general activity reports presented by the work packages leaders; -analysis of the entire work done throughout the project, the challenges and difficulties; -finding opportunities for further funding the… Continue Reading
Two years ago, on November 1st, eight data entry operators started the difficult task of transcribing the data from parish registers into the database. We learned together how to do it, we spent a lot of time checking and re-checking the procedures, we grew up together. Due to their professionalism, due to their skills and… Continue Reading
With entry no. 42 699 in HPDT, at ”Births”, name ”Pelagia Reou” (mother), orthodox, married, born and lives in Ruhsborgo, Prund, of Bistrita District, we have reached 350,000 individuals in our Database! The honor of reaching this target, on 22.10.2016, belongs to our colleague Sofia! We will go further with data transcription, standardisation and record… Continue Reading
This volume summarizes the stage reached by research in historical demography worldwide, after half of century of activity. Content: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, Ioan Bolovan and Sølvi Sogner: A Global History of Historical Demography. Time for an Anthology Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux: Historical Demography and International Network Developments (1928–2010) Dennis D. Cordell, Elizabeth Omoluabi and Nancy Stiegler: Historical Demography… Continue Reading
The paper presented at ESHD (Leuven, Belgium) by Oana Sorescu-Iudean and Ioan Bolovan (”Aspects on Transylvanian marriages in the second half of 19th Century based on Historical Population Database of Transylvania”, with Luminita Dumanescu) provides preliminary results on a scale of analysis that has previously been unknown to the region of Transylvania, owing to the… Continue Reading
Centre for Population Studies and HPDT were part of InASEA Congress (Sofia) through a paper based on social network analyses: “Godparenthood in rural Transylvania 1850-1918. Choices, practice and discourse “. Our colleagues proposed an exploratory research focused on the institution of godparenthood in the town of Ocna-Mures, attempting to reconstruct the individual ties between parents… Continue Reading
During 29.03-2.04.2016 in Valencia, Luminița Dumănescu, Daniela Mârza and Mihaela Hărăguş presented a paper on “New Data on Infant Mortality in Transylvania in the 19th Century based on HPDT (extracts from the Population Database of Historical Transylvania)”, at the Xth edition of the international conference “European Social Science History”, organized by the International Institute of… Continue Reading
Between the 13th and 19th of June 2016 the European Historical Population Samples Network (EHPS-Net) and the Babeş-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) organised the fourth edition of the International Summer School in Historical Demography at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Thirteen students attended the summer school, coming from Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Moldavia, Russia, Norway,… Continue Reading
Between 16-18 February 2016, our colleagues, Mihaela Hărăguş PhD, and Bogdan Crăciun PhD, participated in a workshop dedicated to databases under construction, organized by the Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR), at the University of Umeå. During this workshop, our colleagues presented HPDT, and discussed the difficulties rised by its construction. Our colleagues emphasized,… Continue Reading
Images from the HPDT presentation at International conference “Achievements and future steps”, held by team members Luminita Dumanescu PhD, and Vlad Popovici PhD:
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