LINKS. A System for Historical Family Reconstruction in the Netherlands

LINKS stands for 'LINKing System for historical family reconstruction' and is a software system to link nominal data from the Dutch archives and ultimately reconstruct historical individuals and families. We present the background and philosophy of this matching system and explain its data structure and functioning. Currently the core data of the LINKS system consists of indexed civil certificates. These certificates are available from 1812 — the start of the Dutch Vital Registration — until the year they are confidential based on privacy laws. For more than 20 years, thousands of volunteers h... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Kees Mandemakers
Gerrit Bloothooft
Fons Laan
Joe Raad
Rick J. Mourits
Richard L. Zijdeman
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Reihe/Periodikum: Historical Life Course Studies, Vol 13 (2023)
Verlag/Hrsg.: International Instititute of Social History
Schlagwörter: Nominal record linkage / Historical population data / Civil certificates / Historical demography / Family reconstitution / Genealogical data / Economic theory. Demography / HB1-3840
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.51964/hlcs14685