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HISTORICAL POPULATION DATABASE OF TRANSYLVANIA, 1850-1910

International Conference “Achievements and future steps”

Bucharest, December 10, 2015

Programme RO14 – ”Research within Prioritary Sectors


Centre for Population Studies

Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, România

Paper presenters: Vlad Popovici, Luminița Dumănescu,

Paper authors: Luminița Dumănescu, Tünde Márton, Oana Sorescu-Iudean,

Vlad Popovici

Project 10/SEE 30.06.2014EEA-JRP-Ro-No-2013-1-0028

Conference ”Achievements and future steps”

Bucharest, December 10th 2015


What is HPDT?

1. One of the EEA projects financed in 2014 (with Norwegian partner)

2. The first historical population database on the territory of Transylvania (and

Romania), covering the second part of the 19th century – 1850-1914.

Partners

Centre for Population Studies (Babes-Bolyai University) – 17 team members +

volunteers

Norwegian Historical Data Centre—University of Tromsø (NHDC-UT) – 5 team

members

Budget: 650.000 EURO

Director: Prof. Ioan Bolovan

Leader of the Norwegian Partner: Prof. Gunnar Thorvaldsen



Programme RO14 – ”Research within Prioritary Sectors”


Chronological frame: 1850-1914




Work packages




Work packages

Database architecture



Work package 1





Sources: Parish-registers (baptisms, betrothals, marriages, deaths,

change in denomination, confirmations, blessings, vaccination)

Sampling: made on geographical criteria: the basic sampling unit is the

parish (the main selection criterion is represented by the state of the sources:

parishes with the best-preserved sets of registers go first, followed by the

neighbouring parishes, in the same micro-zone, whit less preserved sources).




Sources – Parish registers

Faith/Denomination Language Alphabet

Eastern Orthodox

Greek Catholic

Catholic

Calvinist

Unitarian

Lutheran

Mosaic

Romanian

Latin

Hungarian

German

Cyrillic

Latin

Gothic (Kurrentschrift)




Geographical frame: The microzones



The current stage of the research




Work package 2




Călărași (CJ) = Ha; Hararaszta; Harast; Harasta; Harasta??; Harastas; Harastás;

Harastăs; Harastăș; Harástás; Harăstăs; Hárastas; Hárastăs; Hărastas; Hărastăs;

Hărastăş; Hărăstas; Hărastăs; Harastas ; Harastăş??; Harastasi; Harastasiu;

Hárástasiu; Hărastăşiu; Harastasu; Harastaș; Harastes; Harastesiu; Harastesu;

Harastesus; Harastos; Harastosie; Harastzos; Harasz.; Haraszasz?; Haraszt; Haraszt.;

Haraszta; Harasztas; Harasztás; Harasztăs; Harăsztăs; Hárasztás; Harasztasi;

Harasztási; Hárasztási; Hárásztasi; Hárásztási; Hârâsztâsi; Hărásztási; Harasztasu;

Harasztes; Harásztès; Harasztesi; Harásztesi; Hárasztesi; Hárasztési; Harasztisi;

Harasztos; Harasztos; Harasztos.; Harasztos??; Harasztose; Harasztosi; Harasztoso;

Harestas; Harestas; Harestasiu; Harestes; Haresztes; Harostasiu; Harostesiu; Harostos;

Harostosiu; Harósztesi; Harosztos; Harosztos ; Harosztosi; Hárosztósi; Hársztásiu;

Henosztesi; Herastas; Herastasiu; Herastasu; Herastes; Herastés; Herastesiu;

Herastesu; Herastisiu; Heraszta??; Herasztasi; Herasztes; Herasztesi; Herásztesi;

Hérasztesi; Herestasu; Héréstés; Herestesiu; Herostesiu; Herosztasi; Herosztesi;

Herosztesu; Horasztesi; Horostasiu; Horostosiu; Horosztasi; Hórosztasi; Hórosztes;

Horosztesi; Horosztési; Horosztos; Hórósztos; Horosztosi; Horosztósi; Hórosztosi;

Hórosztósi; Hórósztosi; Hras; Hras??; Hrast; Hrastas; Hrastaş; Hrastás; Hrastăs;

Hrastăş; Hrástăș; Hrăstăş; Hrastasiu; Hrastășu; Hrasteş; Hrastesiu; Hrastuş; Hrasztás;

Fun fact


Work packages - outputs




Database deliverablesEntries in the database: over 350.000 in IDS format

Repository of sources: over 300.000 images

Toponimic catalogue

Onomastic catalogue

Website allowing open-source genealogical research

Database deliverables at month 18:Individuals (instances of persons) in the database: 177.908

Repository of sources: 168,845 images

Data cleaning – started in April 2015, ongoing

Standardisation – started in June 2015, ongoing

Record linkage – started in November 2015, ongoing

The toponimic and onomastic catalogues – under construction

Website and genealogical interface: built in November 2015, currently

being tested before public release

Project outputs


Project presentations (2014 – 2015)

1. Gunnar Thorvaldsen, New Population Databases under Construction at First Conference of

European Society of Historical Demography, Alghero, Sardinia, 22 September 2014.

2. Gunnar Thorvalden, Transylvania, the Urals, Norway – The expansion of Population Database EHPS

Network, SSHA, Toronto, Canada, November 2014.

3. Vlad Popovici, Ioan Bolovan, Luminița Dumănescu, Historical Population Database of Transylvania,

intermediary results after 6 months of implementation – Cluj-Napoca, 16 Decembre 2015

4. Luminița Dumănescu, De la registrul parohial la baza de date. Historical Population Database of

Transylvania sau provocările contemporane în demografia istorică. Universitatea București, Institutul

de Istorie Socială, 20 Aprilie 2015.

5. Luminița Dumănescu, Historical Population Database of Transylvania – inovatie si standarde

occidentale in cercetarea romaneasca de istorie socială, Universitatea de Vest, Timisoara,

November 12th 2015

6. Vlad Popovici, Angela Lumezeanu, Bazele de date privind populația istorică. Oportunități de

cercetare și colaborare în mediul științific românesc, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iași,

November 19th 2015

Scientific deliverables




Conferences (2015)

1. Luminița Dumănescu, Provocări contemporane în demografia istorică – bazele de date și

studiile de populație, Chișinău, Republica Moldova, 24-25 March 2015;

2. Luminița Dumănescu, Challenges and Expectations. Running the HPDT project, ”Religious

Communities and Demography in Church records: Statistical analysis”, International Seminar,

Ekaterinburg, Russia, 17-21 June 2015;

3. Ioan Bolovan, Marius Eppel, The Parish Registers as sources for the Historical Population

Database of Transylvania at ”Religious Communities and Demography in Church records:

Statistical analysis”, International Seminar, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 17-21 June 2015;

4. Raluca Botoș, Daniela Mârza, Vlad Popovici, Censuses between population statistics and

politics: the Romanians from Transylvania and Hungary (1869-1910), CHAM Conference,

Lisbon, Portugal, 15-18 July 2015;

5. Ioan Bolovan, Illegitimacy in Transylvania before World war I, 22nd International Congress of

Historical Sciences, Jinan, China, 23-29 August, 2015;

6. Ana-Victoria Sima, The Church and the Phenomenon of Illegitimacy in Transylvania during

World War I, 22nd International Congress of Historical Sciences, Jinan, China, 23-29 August,

2015;

7. Marius Eppel, State intervention in the control of Midwifes, 19th and 20th Centuries, 22nd

International Congress of Historical Sciences, Jinan, China, 23-29 August, 2015;

8. Raluca Botoș, Căsătoria și recăsătoria în satele romanești de pe Valea Gurghiului. Studiu de

caz localitatea Orșova (județul Mureș) 1850-1914, Conferinta Nationala a studentilor si

doctoranzilor, istorie, arheologie, muzeologie. Alba Iulia, 12-13 noiembrie 2015.


Workshops organized in the project (2015)

1. 30 – 31 May 2015. Historical Population Database of Transylvania,

Challenges and Expectations. Workshop organized within the EHPS-Net

Summer School of Historical Demography, Cluj-Napoca;

2. 21-26 October 2015. The standardization and linkage process in historical

population databases, Cluj-Napoca, (participants from Norway and

Russia)

3. 12-15 November 2015. Envisioning military population databases across

the Southern border of the Austrian Empire 18th-mid19th centuries

(scientific and technical support for the colleagues from Croatioan Institute

of History, promoters of the project ”Military Life and Warrior Images in

Croatian Borderlands from the 16th Century until 1918”)




Articles (2015)

1. Luminița Dumănescu, ”Provocări contemporane în demografia istorică -

bazele de date și studiile de populație”, Anuarul Institutului de Istorie al

Academiei de Științe al Republicii Moldova, 2015 (forthcoming)

2. Bogdan Crăciun, Crinela Holom, Vlad Popovici, ”Historical Population

Database of Transylvania: Methodology Emplyed in the Selection of

settlemens and micro zones of interest”, in Romanian Journal of Population

Studies, 2015, vol. IX. No. 2, pp. 17 – 30.




HPDT - tool for educational process

Doctoral students

Oana Sorescu-Iudean, The evolution of the testamentary behaviour in the

case of the Transylvanian Saxons (18th century)

Georgiana Izabela Coroian, Mișcarea sezonieră a mortalității în Transilvania

în a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea și începutul secolului XX

Ciprian Porumb Ghiurco, Evoluții demografice în comitatul Sălaj, 1876-1941

MA Students

A. In stage (2014-2016)

1. Raluca Botoș

2. Robert Kelemen

B. Graduated (2015)

1. Ciprian Porumb Ghiurco

2. Vlad Tivadar

3. Adrian Sabou

Instrument for the students – the second universitary year when

the MA students are using the database for their own researches


Session proposal

Conference: European Social Science History Conference, Valencia, Spain

30 March-2 Aprilie 2016

Network: Family and Demography

Panel: Eastern Infant Mortality: Religion, Ethnicity, Location

Organizers: Luminița Dumănescu, Gunnar Thorvalsen

Chair: Anders Brändström

Discussant: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir

Participants (Papers):

1. Gunnar Thorvaldsen, Hilde L. Sommerseth, Once Upon a Time in the East?

Spatial Distribution of Infant Mortality in the North East of Norway in the

Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

2. Iulia Borovik, Elena Glavatskaya, Infant Mortality in Late 19th to Early 20th

Century Ekaterinburg

3. Grazyna Liczbinska, Infant Mortality in the Catholic and Lutheran

Populations from Historical Poland

4. Luminița Dumănescu, Mihaela Hărăguș, Daniela Mârza, New Data on Infant

Mortality in Transylvania in the 19th Century based on the HPDT


New knowledge on traditional midwifery and assistance at birth

Different patterns of midwifery based on geographical specificities:

- In mountains: almost every women played, at least once in a life time, the

role of birth assistant – due to the scattered topography of the villages

- In lower regions: the number of assisted births for one midwife could

amount in some villages to over 1200 – that is, in some cases, more than the

entire village population at a given point in time.

In-depth knowledge on interconfessional religious assistance

- The children of the ortdodox priets are baptised by the Greek-Catholic

one.

- The priests replaced their colleagues without regard for the

denominational affiliation - if is needed!

Part III. HPDT`s top achievements




Part III. HPDT`s top achievements

In-depth knowledge on death causes

who have been, until now, rarely studied at micro-level and completely

unstudied on trans-generational patterns.

Data about the epidemics (cholera 1849, smallpox – 1874, scarlet fever – 1908,

whooping cough – pertussis, tuberculosis).

Data about possibly hereditary transmitted chronic diseases or about the

increased occurrence of specific diseases in particular geographical micro-

zones

Data about transgenerational recurrence of deviant behaviour (suicidal,

alcoholism, domestic violence leading to death)

In-depth knowledge on godparenting and social networks

The presence of ”professional” godparents (the priests, the local nobleman) or

what we might call ”godparenting clusters” – families or extended families whose

members often act as godparents


Exemplification:Godparenting

networks in theCalvinist communityof Ocna Mureș (AB)

1856-1895

Butcher

Carpenter

Butcher

Gentleman

(Úr)

Smaller dots (fathers)

=

mostly salt miners

and land workers

Larger dots

=

Godparents

(usually

members of

the

burgeoisie)


Exemplification:Godparenting networks

in the Calvinist community of Ocna

Mureș (AB) 1856-1895

Butcher

Carpenter

Butcher

Gentleman

(Úr)

Smaller dots (fathers

=

mostly salt miners

and land workers

Larger dots

=

Godparents

(usually members

of the burgeoisie)


Exemplification:Godparentingnetworks in theCalvinist communityof Ocna Mureș (AB) 1856-1895

Butcher

Carpenter

Butcher

Gentleman

(Úr)

Smaller dots (fathers)

=

mostly salt miners

and land workers

Larger dots

=

Godparents

(usually

members of

the

burgeoisie)


Project outcomes

•reconsidering the role of historical information on population and the socio-

economic perspectives opened by the knowledge in the field;

•linking the research conducted on population in Romania to the current effort

of reconstructing Europe’s population.

•creating a pool of data that will allow more extensive and more complex

analyses to be conducted than those currently under way




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