A Workshop at the University of Guelph
March 5-6, 2007
Monday March 5
9:00 Chair: Professor Kris Inwood, Economics and History, University of Guelph
Welcome and introductions
Maarten Oosten, Informatics, Leiden University and trainee at the International Institute of Social History (IISG) and Kees Mandemakers, Senior Research Fellow at the IISG and Director, Historical Sample of the Netherlands
Intergenerational linking of 5.000.000 marriage records from the Netherlands 1812-1922
Gunnar Thorvaldsen, Research Director, Norwegian Historical Data Centre
Extending Norway’s Population Register Backwards to 1801, What is the Realism and Potential?
11:00 coffee
11:15 Chair: Professor Graeme Morton, Scottish Studies Foundation Chair and Department of History, University of Guelph
Ray Madsen, Manager, Historical Family Reconstitution Unit, LDS Church and Sue Dintelman, Pleiades Software
Tools and Processes for Population Reconstitution -Record Linking and Merging Communities and Countries; Norway and Scotland
12:15 light lunch
13:30 Chair: Professor P. Douglas McCalla, Canada Research Chair in Canadian Rural History, University of Guelph
Bernard Casgrain and Michele Jomphe, Université de Québec à Chicoutimi and BALSAC
People, Methods and Results: the BALSAC Experience of Population Data Linkage
Kevin Schürer, History, University of Essex and Director of UK Data Archive
Plans for a Victorian Panel Study: Theory, Methodology and Practice
15:30 refreshments
15:45 Chair: Professor John Cranfield, Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph
Ron Goeken, Senior Research Associate, Minnesota Population Centre and Linkage Co-ordinator, NAPP2 Project
Update on Linking People from 1870 to 1880 in the US Census
Gordon Darroch, Sociology, York University and Director York CCRI (1911-1951 Canadian Census Samples)
Reflections on ‘Contextual’ Variables and Selection Bias in Record Linkage: Lessons from an Early, Semi-automated Approach, Ontario 1861-1871
19 :00 dinner, Georgian Creeds Restaurant, 16 Douglas Street, Guelph (7 :00 for 7 :30)
Tuesday March 6
9:00 Chair: Professor Peter Baskerville, History, University of Victoria and Co-ordinator, Victoria CCRI
Lisa Dillon, Démographie, Université de Montréal and Director 1852 and 1881 Canadian Census Projects
A Decade of Changes in Household Complexity, Married Couples 1871 – 1881 Canada
Jason Gilliland, Geography, University of Western Ontario
Building an Urban Historical GIS for Montreal: Methodological Issues and Research Applications
Laurent Richard, Coordinator, Laval CCRI
Population et histoire sociale de la ville de Québec
11 :00 coffee
11:15 Chair: Professor Kevin James, History, University of Guelph
Shawn Day, McMaster University, Kris Inwood, University of Guelph and Asher Kirk-Elleker, University of Guelph
Manual vs Automated Linkage of Canadian WWI Personnel Records to the 1901 Census
Sue Dintelman and Tim Maness, Pleiades Software Development, Inc.
Record Linking with Family Data: Reconstituting the Population of Utah
Gunnar Thorvaldsen (speaking with a Swedish accent)
The Umeå University Demographic Data Base
12:45 Closing Remarks
additional participants:
Ms. Jean Dalgleish, Office Co-ordinator, 1891 Census Project, University of Guelph
Mr. Jason Dean, PhD candidate, Economics, McGill University
Dr. Michelle Edwards, Data Resource Centre, University of Guelph
Professor Elizabeth Ewan, University Research Chair of History and Scottish Studies, Guelph
Mr. Andrew Hinson, PhD candidate, History, University of Guelph
Ms. Chelsea Jack, Database Manager, 1891 Census Project, University of Guelph
Mr. Jordan McNamara, Coding Operator, 1891 Census Project, University of Guelph
Mr. Mat Novak, PhD candidate, Geography, University of Western Ontario
Professor Richard Reid, History University of Guelph
Professor Henry Thille, Economics, University of Guelph
The meeting is sponsored by the College of Arts, the College of Management and Economics and the 1891 Census Project http://www.census1891.ca/ at the University of Guelph. For further information contact Professor Kris Inwood at 519-824-4120 or by email.