Creating the 1831 Canadian Census Database

Cherkesly, Isabelle; Dillon, Lisa; Gagnon, Alain

doi:10.1080/01615440.2019.1567419

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“…The creation of historical census data and the integration of census and parish register data is another important part of the PRDH mandate. The PRDH created a complete-count database of the householdlevel 1831 Census of Quebec (78,049 household heads) and linked half of these household heads to the family reconstitution data (Cherkesly, Dillon, & Gagnon, 2019). For the same project, the PRDH transcribed over 450,000 occupations from the 1800-1824 birth and death acts as well as 46,000 occupations from the birth and death acts of the 1825-1849 parishes of Montreal, Quebec City, Trois-Rivières, Gaspésie and Saguenay/Charlevoix, ensuring researchers using Quebec family reconstitution data can integrate socio-economic status into their analyses.…”

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PRDH and IMPQ 1800–1849 Quebec Historical Family Reconstitution. Content, Design and Biographical Completeness

Dillon

Amorevieta‐Gentil

Gagnon

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Since 1966, the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) has worked to create comprehensive genealogical data of the Quebec population. The PRDH longitudinal database, the Registre de la population du Québec ancien (RPQA), draws upon the French Catholic parish registers of the St. Lawrence Valley as its main source material. This family reconstitution covers the French Catholic population of Quebec up to 1799, along with deaths after 1800 of persons born before 1750. Subsequent partnerships with l’Institut Généalogique Drouin, FamilySearch and Ancestry as well as collaboration on the 2011–2017 Infrastructure intégrée des microdonnées historiques de la population du Québec (1621–1965) (IMPQ) project enabled the PRDH to continue efforts to reconstitute the French Catholic population up to 1849. Despite these advances, pushing family reconstitution forward to the mid-19th century has forced the PRDH team to reckon with the increasingly mixed and geographically mobile Quebec population of the 19th and early 20th centuries. This article describes the content and design of the RPQA database, detailing the structure of the RPQA relational database and the breadth of variables available for data management and analysis. It then describes features of the IMPQ extension of family reconstitution from 1800 to 1849, including observational protocols necessary to use these data and consideration of data completeness after 1800. At the same time, the article addresses the fundamental question, "what is my population?" as part of a broader reflection upon the target population encompassed by these data.

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PRDH and IMPQ 1800–1849 Quebec Historical Family Reconstitution. Content, Design and Biographical Completeness

Dillon

Amorevieta‐Gentil

Gagnon

et al. 2023

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“… 1 https://www.familysearch.org/records/archives/web/ , accessed 25 September 2021. FamilySearch.org is part of a system that has long been used by historical demographers seeking to analyze changes and continuities over time (see Bean, May, and Skolnick 1978 ; Otterstrom, Bunker, and Farnsworth 2021 , 5; Cherkesly, Dillon, and Gagnon 2019 ; Oliveira 2018 ). …”

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Adoption knowledge: a citizen-scientific use ofFamilySearchto understand Peruvian adoption

Leinaweaver

Forrester

2022

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

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This article analyzes the citizen-scientific work conducted by a Peruvian adoptee, co-author Milagros Caroline Forrester, who is collecting, archiving, coding, and analyzing the birth records of Peruvian adoptees she encounters through her ongoing review of FamilySearch, a depository of genealogical data run by the Mormon Church. Forrester’s project resembles the personal birthparent searches conducted by many adopted people, but at another scale: becoming “citizen science” through an enlargement of the sample size to hundreds of cases, an analytic approach to the form of each document and what meta-communicative data the form provides, and a determination of the implications and significance of the synthesized results. In her research with birth registries, Forrester was inspired by scientific methodologies in the social sciences, including database creation, management, and analysis, and open coding of textual artifacts. This article shows that the nuance that laypeople bring to personally implicated citizen science can lead to engaged and meaningful findings that reach communities not often heard from in scholarly research. Forrester’s study is grounded in an awareness of her fellow adoptees’ challenges in finding information about their origins, and ambivalence about the significance of those findings.

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The lesser shades of labor coercion: The impact of seigneurial tenure in nineteenth-century Quebec

Geloso

Kufenko

Arsenault-Morin

2023

Journal of Development Economics

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Creating the 1831 Canadian Census Database

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

PRDH and IMPQ 1800–1849 Quebec Historical Family Reconstitution. Content, Design and Biographical Completeness

PRDH and IMPQ 1800–1849 Quebec Historical Family Reconstitution. Content, Design and Biographical Completeness

Adoption knowledge: a citizen-scientific use ofFamilySearchto understand Peruvian adoption

The lesser shades of labor coercion: The impact of seigneurial tenure in nineteenth-century Quebec

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