International audienceA growing number of websites offer users the possibility of building family trees. This article analyses the data collection and entry work of these users and how their results may be used in historical demography to further knowledge on past generations. To that end, the results obtained on the Geneanet website are compared with those established in the literature, concerning the entries of 2,457,450 French or French-origin individuals who lived in the 19th century. The comparison shows a considerable bias in the sex ratio, with women underrepresented. Fertility is also substantially underestimated. Regarding mortality, the data (compared with historical values) underestimate the mortality of men up to the age of 40 a...
Pour retracer la fécondité sur une longue période, les démographes et historiens ont souvent recours...
This paper aims to investigate how kinship entourage evolves throughout an entire individual life co...
Whereas historical demography was born with the study of the elite and no other social group benefit...
International audienceA growing number of websites offer users the possibility of building family tr...
In the digital age, collaborative data can be collected massively at low costs. Genealogy sites are ...
International audienceThe digital age allows data collection to be done on a large scale and at low ...
In more récent years, historians have shown interest in genealogy as this science describes the demo...
When they are complète, descending genealogies constitute remarkable sources for the analysis of pas...
Our article Can historical demography benefit from the collaborative data of genealogy websites?, wr...
Original analyses emanating from the rediscovery of genealogy have joined with many other new perspe...
International audienceFollowing the discovery concerning a whole Bas-Briton - both male and female -...
International audienceFollowing the discovery concerning a whole Bas-Briton - both male and female -...
International audienceComputers are more and more frequently used to analyse genealogical data.While...
SUMMARY Three genealogical works published in the late fifties have been used for this paper. They p...
Le but de cet article est de revenir sur les mutations à l’oeuvre dans le secteur de la généalogie. ...
Pour retracer la fécondité sur une longue période, les démographes et historiens ont souvent recours...
This paper aims to investigate how kinship entourage evolves throughout an entire individual life co...
Whereas historical demography was born with the study of the elite and no other social group benefit...
International audienceA growing number of websites offer users the possibility of building family tr...
In the digital age, collaborative data can be collected massively at low costs. Genealogy sites are ...
International audienceThe digital age allows data collection to be done on a large scale and at low ...
In more récent years, historians have shown interest in genealogy as this science describes the demo...
When they are complète, descending genealogies constitute remarkable sources for the analysis of pas...
Our article Can historical demography benefit from the collaborative data of genealogy websites?, wr...
Original analyses emanating from the rediscovery of genealogy have joined with many other new perspe...
International audienceFollowing the discovery concerning a whole Bas-Briton - both male and female -...
International audienceFollowing the discovery concerning a whole Bas-Briton - both male and female -...
International audienceComputers are more and more frequently used to analyse genealogical data.While...
SUMMARY Three genealogical works published in the late fifties have been used for this paper. They p...
Le but de cet article est de revenir sur les mutations à l’oeuvre dans le secteur de la généalogie. ...
Pour retracer la fécondité sur une longue période, les démographes et historiens ont souvent recours...
This paper aims to investigate how kinship entourage evolves throughout an entire individual life co...
Whereas historical demography was born with the study of the elite and no other social group benefit...