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Informationen zum Autor Gunnar Thorvaldsen is Professor of History and Director of The Norwegian Historical Data Centre, at the University of Tromsø, Norway. His main research interests are historical demography, the history of the census, and longitudinal population register methodology. He currently heads the effort to build a historical population register for Norway. Klappentext Over the last few decades, researchers in fields such as history, the social sciences and medicine have had improved access to census materials in northern Europe, making information about these infrastructures, some of which are heavily used by genealogists, topical. It was originally published as a special issue of The History of the Family. Zusammenfassung Over the last few decades, researchers in fields such as history, the social sciences and medicine have had improved access to census materials in northern Europe, making information about these infrastructures, some of which are heavily used by genealogists, topical. It was originally published as a special issue of The History of the Family. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Three centuries of northern population censuses 1. Residence patterns of the elderly in early eighteenth-century Iceland 2. Masculine responsibility across generations: living arrangements in a Norwegian parish around 1900 3. Mosaic: recovering surviving census records and reconstructing the familial history of Europe 4. Sweden in 1930 and the 1930 census 5. Polygamy among indigenous people of northern West Siberia in ethnographic and early census materials 6. Primary sources on the history of the Soviet family in the twentieth century: an analytical review 7. Birthplaces, migration and identity in the 2001 census for Ukraine
