This article studies the stories of Russian citizens who were born in Germany but reside in Russia. Most of them had relocated to Russia as a result of the withdrawal of Russian troops from Germany after 1990. Analysing individual data from the 2002 and 2010 censuses, the author traces the lives of children born into the families of Soviet military men based in East Germany after World War II. Over ...

Both the completed transcription of our emigration protocols, the construction of the national Historical Population Register, and other developments make an article about methods for studying emigration from Norway through the last couple of centuries topical. It starts by discussing the Norwegian and American source material where we can identify the emigrants’ absence from Norway. It in particular ...

The establishment of the Norwegian Historical Data Centre, the 1801 project at the University of Bergen and the data transcriptions and scanned versions of the sources in the National Archives made Norwegian microdata much more available. A more detailed description of the digital techniques applied to the wealth of censuses, church records and other types of nominative data from the 18th century onwards, ...

Historisk befolkningsregister, HBR, er et register over den norske befolkningen fra 1801 frem til Det sentrale folkeregisteret fra 1964. Det lages ved å lenke sammen personforekomster av samme person i folketellinger og kirkebøker og koble sammen nære familiemedlemmer.<br><br> Vi viser hvordan algoritmer brukes til å finne lenker og koblinger. Vi har funnet familierelasjoner i alle de nominative ...

The article presents an original, comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the civil registration system in the world, based on wide empirical materials. The emphasis is on how information about the population in the Western countries and Russia has traditionally been collected. The development of the methods for taking the earliest censuses; the transition from numeric to nominative censuses and ...

Fra våren 1907 til februar 1908 foretok den russiske etnografen Sergej Sergel (1883–1955) en studiereise i Norden for å utøve deltakende observasjon og komplettere samlingen med samiske gjenstander ved Det russiske etnografiske museet (REM) i St Petersburg. Vårt hovedmål er å presentere Sergels erfaringer fra reisen ved å sette hans etterlatte materiale og forskning inn i en sammenheng av norske ...

Modern demographers analyse regional and other infant mortality differentials as important factors behind the current life expectancy of Russian citizens. Historically, however, the Russian Empire is simply displayed as one block with high infant mortality rates. Also with respect to cultural background factors, Russia is often perceived as religiously homogeneous with the Orthodox Church dominating ...

Den 12. juli 1893 seilte et vikingskip inn på havna i Chicago, et knapt halvår etter at det var sjøsatt i Sandefjord. Skipet var en tro kopi av Gokstadskipet, og anledningen var verdensutstillingen til minne om Colombus` "oppdagelse" av Amerika 400 år tidligere. Ankomsten ble slått stort opp på forsida av The Chicago Tribune, og seilasen figurerte i amerikanske og norske aviser i ukesvis. Hvordan ...