Interactive Record Linkage

Interactive Record Linkage

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In order to carry out demographic analyses at individual and group levels, a manual method of linking individual event records from parish registers was developed mcclelland reclining sofa in the late 1950s.In order to save time and to work with larger areas than small parishes, systems for automatic record linkage were developed a couple of decades later.A third method, an interactive record linkage, named Demolink, has been developed even more recently.The main new feature 15-fc0093dx of the method is the possibility of linking from more than two historical sources simultaneously.

This improves the process of sorting out which events belong to which individual life courses.This paper discusses how Demolink was used for record linkage in a large Norwegian parish for the period 1801-1878.