Links to website Homepage Get data Introduction Life stories of individuals who lived in Odense 1741-1824; descriptions of buildings in central Odense 1761-1900. Shortname ODENSE IDS compatible No Period 1761 - 1900 Territory Odense, Denmark Contact information Organisation Odense Stadsarkiv Web Address http://www.odensedatabasen.dk Location Odense, Denmark Postal Address Odense Stadsarkiv, Klosterbakken 2, 5000 Odense C Contact Persons Nanna Floor Clausen, Archivist, Danish National Archives nc@sa.dk Hans Chr. Johansen hcj@sdu.dk Citation Odensedatabasen, Odense Stadsarkiv QuestionnaireDownload questionnaireThe questionnaire was submitted on 5 January 2015 by Nanna Floor Clausen and Hans Chr. Johansen Scope / Status Original goal Scope and main objectives: Life stories of individuals who lived in Odense 1741-1824; descriptions of buildings in central Odense 1761-1900. Time and territory covered by data:1741 – 1921, 4 parishes in Odense. Main sources: So far we used censuses 1787 – 1921, parish registers (birth, marriage and death) 1741 – 1891 guilds, tax registers, probate records, records of citizenship, lists of poor and inhabitants of institutions for disabled persons, emigrations lists, fire insurance descriptions of buildings, city directories. Current status Work in progress. Sample definition Total count, no sampling; Total population and all buildings. Geographic area under observation 4 parishes in Odense. Realized parts Work in progress. In principle it will never be finished as new information will be added whenever relevant sources are found and transcribed. Keywords demography, life course, census, church register, population register, history, social science, occupations Sources Sources From yearEnd yearSourceExplanationPDF 1741 1891 Baptism Church records PDF 1741 1891 Marriages from church registers Parishes and periods PDF 1741 1891 Burials Church records PDF 1787 1921 Population Census Full count PDF 1775 1891 Nominative lists List of poor, households with head of household; lists of prisoners. PDF 1749 1902 Taxes Three source types covering different years in mainly 18th century. Collection procedure • Data collection period: 1906s, still in progress. • Data collection method: Transcriptions by individuals direct from sources, from scanned sources and from microfilms, followed by proofreading and various sorts of controls. • How was the checking of the transcription done? - Proof reading and automatic controls. • When was it done? - When a source for a parish and an event was completely transcribed. The automatic control was done when the data was integrated with the data already transcribed and linked. • Purpose of the transcription: For research and genealogy. The database is built for research purpose, for persons interested in the demography and history of a large Danish town. It is widely used by genealogists. • Control methods by researcher: Internal consistencies. • Data collection staff: About twenty free lancers, two historians and an IT-specialist. Observations Units of observation Unit of observation ExplanationNumber Individuals Total town population (500.000 records with 4-5 records of information per individual). 100,000 Married couples Consisting of research person and spouse (data from population registers and/or marriage certificates). Families Only observed when research person and family cohabit (parents and families of unit of observation itself). Data are from population registers. A family is defined broadly (i.e. including more generations). Households All households in which the research person is observed (including institutionalized households and households where the research person was serving, etc.). Data are from population registers. undefined Institution for disabled persons. How do the units of observation enter observation? Baptism How do the units of observation leave observation? Burial Dates estimated Using censuses, tax register. Can observations be linked to geographic locations? Yes Are the dates and locations of movements within the observation area recorded? Yes Are all individuals who lived in the households of sample members recorded? Yes Linkage • Which sources and units of observation have been linked? - All events and sources are linked to individual persons. • Documentation of linking: Programme, manually – Manually. • Name of software if used (and its parameters) - All linking is done using knowledge of sources and the persons in spreadsheets. • What are the rules for linking? - Total information of each recording. • How each reconstructed person is traceable to the original sources /transcribed data? - Information on sources used, page in source and/or number of person. • How is linkage represented in the database? - By an universal number (ID). • Linkage percentage - It is the number of individuals linked from one source to another. All individuals are linked at least between two sources. • Quality of linkage (own evaluation) - High quality after c. 1814. • What reference/coding systems have been linked to the data? - No coding systems so far. Variables Events Variables The number of variable depends on the source and varies by source. Therefore it is very complicated /tiresome to give the number of variables. On individuals: Data of birth and dead, age, gender, marital status, religion, occupation, migration. On individuals: Type of household, children present, age and number of children. Coding / Reference systems No coding systems so far. Data representation Probably MySqL Kinship relations Recording Parents to children born, often parents to married persons and to deceased children. Part of census records. Depth of information All who have lived in the town in the period under consideration. Publications Publications - N/A
