Collaborations between IPUMS and genealogical organizations, 1999-2022

From 1999 to 2019, IPUMS collaborated with genealogical organizations to develop massive individual-level census datasets spanning the 1790 through 1940 period, and we are currently working on the 1950 census. This research note describes how our genealogical collaborations came about. We focus on...

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Main Author: Steven Ruggles
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Language:English
Published: International Institute of Social History 2023-01-01
Series:Historical Life Course Studies
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Online Access:https://hlcs.nl/article/view/12920
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description From 1999 to 2019, IPUMS collaborated with genealogical organizations to develop massive individual-level census datasets spanning the 1790 through 1940 period, and we are currently working on the 1950 census. This research note describes how our genealogical collaborations came about. We focus on our collaborations with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Family and Church History Department (later known as FamilySearch) and the private genealogical companies HeritageQuest and Ancestry.com.
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spelling doaj-art-e97b89fe673246c484cb0f194528db802025-02-03T04:29:27ZengInternational Institute of Social HistoryHistorical Life Course Studies2352-63432023-01-011310.51964/hlcs12920Collaborations between IPUMS and genealogical organizations, 1999-2022Steven Ruggles0University of Minnesota From 1999 to 2019, IPUMS collaborated with genealogical organizations to develop massive individual-level census datasets spanning the 1790 through 1940 period, and we are currently working on the 1950 census. This research note describes how our genealogical collaborations came about. We focus on our collaborations with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Family and Church History Department (later known as FamilySearch) and the private genealogical companies HeritageQuest and Ancestry.com. https://hlcs.nl/article/view/12920Census dataGenealogyIPUMS
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Collaborations between IPUMS and genealogical organizations, 1999-2022
Historical Life Course Studies
Census data
Genealogy
IPUMS
title Collaborations between IPUMS and genealogical organizations, 1999-2022
title_full Collaborations between IPUMS and genealogical organizations, 1999-2022
title_fullStr Collaborations between IPUMS and genealogical organizations, 1999-2022
title_full_unstemmed Collaborations between IPUMS and genealogical organizations, 1999-2022
title_short Collaborations between IPUMS and genealogical organizations, 1999-2022
title_sort collaborations between ipums and genealogical organizations 1999 2022
topic Census data
Genealogy
IPUMS
url https://hlcs.nl/article/view/12920
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