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63:30812 Gatley, David A.
Computerising the 1861 census abstracts and vital registration
statistics. Local Population Studies, No. 58, Spring 1997. 37-47
pp. Colchester, England. In Eng.
"The Victorian Census
Abstracts, that is, the printed census volumes, the Annual Reports of
the Registrar General and the returns of the Poor Law Commissioners are
neglected sources in the study of nineteenth-century society [in
England and Wales]....Until the work described in this paper, no
systematic attempt had been made to create a database for most of the
available sources for a single year. This has now been completed for
the 1861 census. This paper will examine the value of the database to
both researchers and local historians. But, first it will briefly
consider the nature of the sources, their accuracy and how they were
made machine-readable."
Correspondence: D. A. Gatley,
Staffordshire University, School of Social Sciences, Stoke-on-Trent ST4
2DS, England. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
