Van geboortebank tot collaboratory. Een reflectie op twintig jaar dataverzameling en onderzoek met de HSN

In 1826, the Dutch government decreed that slave owners in the Dutch colony of Suriname had to register all enslaved persons in their possession and all changes in ownership. Registration was done in a central register until the abolition of slavery in Suriname in 1863. The registers give a continuous overview of the enslaved population in Suriname stretching for more than three decades. The level of information on the enslaved population of Suriname make the slave registers into an exceptional source for the study of slavery. As part of the project Make the Surinamese slave registers public a database of these registers was created. The database is the first step to create a Historical Database of Suriname (HDS) covering a substantial part of the population of Suriname between 1830 and 1950. ARTICLE HISTORY

Section: Historical Database Of Surinamementioning

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A research–note on the slave registers of Suriname, 1830–1865

Galen

Hassankhan

2018

“…These three cities provide a significant range of cultural, social and economic characteristics; (4) Moreover we are able to bring an international dimension to our comparative research. The Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN)-project for instance shares a number of features with the Antwerp sample (Kok, Mandemakers & Bras, 2009); (5) A crucial sociological question is whether modern integration today is following (or will follow) the same path as in the past, or whether modern processes are unique. The latter 'uniqueness school' is based on the fact that the structural circumstances are now different (the welfare state is fully developed, there is a social security system, the migration policy is different).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Antwerp COR*-database: A unique Flemish source for historical-demographic research

Matthijs

Moreels

2010

This note describes the origin, the history, structure and characteristics of a recently constructed Flemish (the Northern, Dutchspeaking part of Belgium) historical-demographic database. The so-called Antwerp COR*-database offers a unique combination of features: it spans nearly seven decades (1846 to 1920) and consists of information drawn from the population registers and the vital registration records (birth, marriage, and death) of the whole district of Antwerp. Every person whose family name starts with the letter combination COR* is selected in the database. The database covers three linked generations and contains micro-data on the individual level (life courses), intermediary data on family patterns, and macro-data on ecological characteristics.

“…During the past three decades, historical population behaviour in Belgium and the Netherlands has been well documented and examined (see for an overview Neven & Devos, 2001, Matthijs, Kok, Engelen, Van Poppel & Mandemakers, 2006Kok, Mandemakers & Bras, 2009). Indeed, both countries possess good historical demographic sources, in particular robust longitudinal population registers since the mid-nineteenth century.…”

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Introduction to special section on the biological standard of living

Devos

2010

In December 2008 the WOG Historical Demography organised a workshop at Ghent University that covered a wide range of topics from fertility trends and kinship characteristics to health issues. The presentations and discussions that took place at the workshop provided the inspiration for this special section on the biological standard of living. The articles in this section offer valuable contributions for three of those biological measures: height, mortality and cause of death. The introduction to the section demonstrates the significance of this particular kind of evidence for our understanding of social and economic history. Exploring and analysing the well-being of populations is one of the most interesting and main challenges of social scientists. As the articles in this special section show, using historical evidence on the health and height of a population is extremely important for our understanding of certain socio-economic processes, but also extremely complex.