Recherche

Linking individuals The text recognition from all images of the listes nominatives will contribute to build a set of individual data structured by municipality and by census year: millions of lines, each containing the name and surname of an individual …

Team The Principal Investigator Historian and demographer, Lionel Kesztenbaum is senior researcher at INED and associate researcher at PSE, where he teaches economic history and historical demography. His research focuses on inequalities in the long run, …

Objectives Our objectives are threefold. First, Socface will develop new methods to extract individual-level data from a very large set of archival document images, taking advantage of the inherent structure of the original document, and with …

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Source Produced every five years starting in 1836, the listes nominatives are a summary of the census, providing information on each individual with some of his or her characteristics, such as name, year of birth, and occupation (see the presentation of …

FAQ • Y aura-t-il une dérogation générale pour diffuser les indexations jusqu’en 1936 ? • Pourquoi est-il question de licence de réutilisation dans ce projet puisque seules les bases de données provenant de l’utilisation de ces images seront diffusées ? • …

Methods The huge number of listes (about 15 million images from 1836 to 1936, corresponding to 700 million individual records) and their spatial dispersion (they are kept in nearly one hundred archives deposits) have limited their use until now. The …

Dissemination The transcriptions of the listes nominatives obtained through the project will be made available to the general public, allowing anyone to browse freely through millions of records. They will be made available both on FranceArchives and on …

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