Date Recognition in Historical Parish Records

Piqueras, Laura Cabello; Fierro, Constanza; F., Lotz, Jonas; Rust, Phillip; Rommedahl, Joen; Due, Jeppe Klok; Igel, Christian; Elliott, Desmond; Pedersen, Carsten Bøcker; Salazar, Israfel; Søgaard, Anders

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-21648-0_4

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“…Currently, there are no ready-made algorithms suitable for the transcription of Danish PRs. However, our approach to transcribe the PRs automatically based on a combination of convolutional neural network and a transformer architecture is likely to achieve accurate text recognition with error rates as low as 3–5% based on our proof-of-concept experiments [ 21 ] and the existing literature.…”

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Towards more comprehensive nationwide familial aggregation studies in Denmark: The Danish Civil Registration System versus the lite Danish Multi-Generation Register

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Scand J Public Health

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Aim: Linking information on family members in the Danish Civil Registration System (CRS) with information in Danish national registers provides unique possibilities for research on familial aggregation of diseases, health patterns, social factors and demography. However, the CRS is limited in the number of generations that it can identify. To allow more complete familial linkages, we introduce the lite Danish Multi-Generation Register (lite MGR) and the future full Danish MGR that is currently being developed. Methods: We generated the lite MGR by linking the current version of the CRS with historical versions stored by the Danish National Archives in the early 1970s, which contain familial links not saved in the current CRS. We describe and compare the completeness of familial links in the lite MGR and the current version of the CRS. We also describe planned procedures for generating the full MGR by linking the current CRS with scanned archived records from Parish Registers. Results: Among people born in Denmark in 1960 or later, the current CRS contains information on both parents. However, it has limited parental information for people born earlier. Among the 732,232 people born in Denmark during 1950–1959, 444,084 (60.65%) had information on both parents in the CRS. In the lite MGR, it was 560,594 (76.56%). Conclusions: The lite MGR offers more complete information on familial relationships than the current CRS. The lite and full MGR will offer an infrastructure tying together existing research infrastructures, registers and biobanks, raising their joint research value to an unparalleled level.

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“…Here, we can recognise full dates with an error rate of 4%. When our model predicts a wrong birthday, in 75% of the cases, the correct date is among the five most likely predicted dates [ 21 ].…”

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