Deaths and survivors in war: The Italian soldiers in WWI

Fornasin, Alessio; Breschi, Marco; Manfredini, Matteo

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“…The study of these consequences has largely been conducted using contemporary sources in fields like health sciences and sociology (MacLean & Elder, 2007;Modell & Haggerty, 1991). However, as the immensely successful Union Army project on American Civil War soldier data (Fogel et al, 2000) and recent projects in Italy (Fornasin, Breschi, & Manfredini, 2019) and Australia have shown, demographic historians with their vast historical datasets also have much to offer for the analysis of the human consequences of wars.…”

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In recent years the development of historical databases reconstructing the lives of large populations accelerated. These considerable investments of time and money have greatly expanded possibilities for new research in history, demography, sociology, economics, and other disciplines. This special issue describes the content and design of 23 important historical databases. Authors were given the freedom to discuss a range of practical and technical decisions from evaluating archival sources to crowdsourcing data entry. The most common issue is nominative record linkage, but we find different choices between semi-automatic and fully automatic linkage techniques and various approaches for connecting diverse sources. Some databases describe special problems, like linking Chinese names, handwritten text recognition or the construction of a release in IDS-format. Other databases offer detailed descriptions of sources or discuss prospects for including new datasets.

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“…The study of these consequences has largely been conducted using contemporary sources in fields like health sciences and sociology (MacLean & Elder, 2007;Modell & Haggerty, 1991). However, as the immensely successful Union Army project on American Civil War soldier data (Fogel et al, 2000) and recent projects in Italy (Fornasin, Breschi, & Manfredini, 2019) and Australia (McCalman, Kippen, McMeeken, Hopper, & Reade, 2019) have shown, demographic historians with their vast historical datasets also have much to offer for the analysis of the human consequences of wars.…”

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Construction of the Finnish Army in World War II Database

Taskinen

2023

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This article introduces the Finnish Army in World War II Database (FA2W) currently under construction that is being built to study the effects of World War II on Finnish society. The database is a stratified sample of 4,253 representative of the men who served in the Finnish Army in World War II. The data have been gathered from the military service record collection of the Finnish Army, which holds files on practically all draft-age Finnish men of the birth cohort 1903–1926 and around 70% of the birth cohorts 1897–1902. The amount of data is extensive, containing over 60 different variables. The main part of the database consists of men's military careers, comprising longitudinal data on their positions in society and in the army (e.g., civilian/conscript/frontline service), military unit, military branch, task, rank, and service class. Other information includes socio-economic information from the draft and wartime and war experiences, such as wounds, illnesses, medical treatments, death, and honors. In the future the database will be expanded with men’s postwar life trajectories to study the long-term effects of the war.

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Morts Pour la France: A database of French fatalities of the Great War

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2023

Explorations in Economic History

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Deaths and survivors in war: The Italian soldiers in WWI

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